Donna Tartt
Paperback | Pages: 624 pages Rating: 3.46 | 46030 Users | 4441 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Little Friend |
| ISBN: | 1400031699 (ISBN13: 9781400031696) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Harriet Dufresnes, Allison Dufresnes, Charlotte Cleve, Edie Cleve, Libby Cleve, Hely, Ida Rhew, Danny Ratliff |
| Setting: | Alexandria, Mississippi,1970(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003), WH Smith Literary Award (2003) |
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Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss.Define Epithetical Books The Little Friend
| Title | : | The Little Friend |
| Author | : | Donna Tartt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 624 pages |
| Published | : | October 28th 2003 by Vintage (first published October 22nd 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Crime. Literature. Novels |
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Part one: while reading it... This is what you call a 'slow read'. It is impossible to race thru these pages. That is why I had two prior unsuccessful attempts to read this book. An impatient mood is not a good mindset to read this one. But I loved The Secret History and I just know that Donna Tartt is a good writer. You just have to have quiet time on your hands to read this one. So I'm taking my time with this one and it's rewarding. The descriptions Donna Tartt uses are long and sometimes itThis was far too big a book for this story. Just loads of unnecessary description and background about certain things. It was very slow but i still enjoyed the story. I would read another book by Donna Tartt as I've heard the others are far superior to this.
The only thing keeping this novel together is the binding.
Review to come, I'm still a bit flabbergasted...Killed the life out of me. Just gorgeous, I loved it. I hate the word "evocative," because it seems terribly pretentiouslike terribly pretentious doesnt sound pretentious at all, jeez, but this book is that. Evocative. Powerful, deep and dark, fascinating, poetic, and just overall beautifully written. Harriet is a firecracker, a pistol, a "trip." She's so completely herself and so completely relatable, it's almost eery. My childhood was nothing
Donna Tartt's second novel (I am working my way backwards from The Goldfinch). While I am still puzzled as to who is the "little friend" referred to in the title (Hely?) and the choreography of the end at the water tank was confusing, nonetheless this was an exciting page-turner and I feel that the protagonist Harriet was compelling. I loved her curiosity, her brilliance, and her spunk - she is not one to be double-crossed. The evocation of Alexandria, Mississippi reminded me greatly of my
The only thing keeping this novel together is the binding.
Oh, Harriet, you poor dear. Twelve and a half, homely and unpopular. The girl with the antique-sounding name and possessor of an "old soul." She has a gruff, common sense approach to life that eschews flattery and wins her few fans among her peers and relatives.In vain, the aunts tried to teach her to be polite. "But don't you understand, darling," said Tat, "that if you don't like the fruitcake, it's better to eat it anyway instead of hurting your hostess's feelings?""But I don't like
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