Donna Tartt
Paperback | Pages: 624 pages Rating: 3.46 | 46030 Users | 4441 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Little Friend |
| Author | : | Donna Tartt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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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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.Declare Books During The Little Friend
| 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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I gave this book three stars only because of the author's ability to use mood, setting, and descriptive in an incredibly amazing way. However, this book was the biggest cocktease ever. Chekhov once said that if a gun is laying on the table in the first scene it had better be fired by the last. I firmly believe this, but Ms. Tartt seems not to. Oh well. It just seems that if you begin a book with a nine-year-old boy hanging dead from a tree, and the entire plot is driven from this, somethingSometimes, I do believe, one's expectations can completely ruin a book for a person. On the other hand, expectations can only infrequently enhance one's experience of a book. It took me three attempts, years apart, to get through The Little Friend ... but it was worth it! A wonderful book, and a unique heroine, young Harriet. Just read patiently and you will be richly rewarded. At first I wanted to give this book 4½ stars ... actually more like 4.4 because I'd "rounded down" to 4 ... but then
Donna really screws the pooch on this one. She makes a very likeable character, a smart, precocious little girl in a small country town who makes enemies with a group of meth-heads while trying to solve the mystery of her 9-year-old brother's hanging when she was a baby, and turns it into a 576-page snoozefest. I eventually had to go to a library miles away and check out the audio version so I didn't have to waste my precious eyesight reading it. I read this one review where the person said they
It's too long. I think that's fair enough to say. But there are several moments in The Little Friend when Donna Tartt reminds us of a what a magnificent writer she really is - when her characters come alive and their deeply-considered thoughts tell us so much about the world we live in.The story begins with a child's murder. Little Robin Cleve Dufresnes is found hanging from a tree in his back yard. Twelve years later we discover the enormous toll it has taken on the family. His devastated
too many racial slurs for a book thats not related to race and written by a white woman in the 90s. dnfing at 52 pages lol
This is such a great novel. I read it a few years ago, I think it was in 2004, I don't really remember now, but I know it was before I separated from Fabio since during the separation process I only read books by Chris Bojalian and books that Lauren mailed me. She didn't mail me The Little Friend, but I'm sure it is she who recommended it. Just last night, I was talking with my friend Jenna about this book (which I convinced her to read, and which she is reading now) and we were cracking up over
The really bad news about this book is that I have finished it! The really good news is that it goes straight into my bury me with this book bookshelf. An absolute busting-out-of-itself 5★
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