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The Little Friend
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. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and "a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens" (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Oct 28th, 2003
- Pages: 640
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.28in - 1.10in - 1.00lb
- EAN: 9781400031696
- Categories: • Literary• Thrillers - Suspense• Psychological
About the Author
More books by Donna Tartt
What people are saying
Film critic, novelist, screenwriter, translator, photographer, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer and chocolate.
Needed a break from the glacial pacing of Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend (still quite enjoying it, but not sure when or if I’ll ever pick it up again) so started on this. Published in Japan in 2001, same year as the film, so may or may not be a novelisation. https://t.co/Ywug0FvNQ8
The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since The Little Friend in 2002. #The_Goldfinch #Novel #Donna_Tartt https://t.co/RiFXY1FgmK https://t.co/j0I0Hwafrr
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Praise for this book
"At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, The Little Friend is most surprising when it is edge of the seat scary." --USA Today
"Harriet [is] one of the most engaging and rounded characters you are likely to find.... Tartt's writing: gorgeous, fluent, visual." --The Times (London)
"Languidly atmospheric ... psychologically acute.... A rich novel that takes you somewhere worth going." --The New Yorker
"A terrific story.... Tartt etches each of these characters with indelible assurance." --Newsweek
"Breathtaking ... A sublime tale rich in religious overtones, moral ambiguities, and violent, poetic acts ... From its darkly enticing opening, we are held spellbound." --Elle
"A sprawling story of vengeance, told in a rich, controlled voice ... Tartt has written a grownup book that captures the dark, Lord of the Flies side of childhood and classic children's literature."
--Time
What people are saying
Film critic, novelist, screenwriter, translator, photographer, evil feminist, wicked spinster, international cat-sitter. Likes frites, beer and chocolate.
Needed a break from the glacial pacing of Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend (still quite enjoying it, but not sure when or if I’ll ever pick it up again) so started on this. Published in Japan in 2001, same year as the film, so may or may not be a novelisation. https://t.co/Ywug0FvNQ8
The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt's first novel since The Little Friend in 2002. #The_Goldfinch #Novel #Donna_Tartt https://t.co/RiFXY1FgmK https://t.co/j0I0Hwafrr