The Little Friend: A Novel Author: Donna Tartt | Language: English | ISBN:
B005PRJJOQ | Format: PDF
The Little Friend: A Novel Description
The second novel by the bestselling author of
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt's
The Little Friend is 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. 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.- File Size: 1348 KB
- Print Length: 642 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1400031699
- Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (October 19, 2011)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005PRJJOQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,847 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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- #9
in Books > Literature & Fiction > United States > Classics - #16
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Classics > Literary - #23
in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Literary Fiction > Psychological
By way of background, I graduated from Ole Miss, which Tartt attended before transferring to Bennington college in Vermont, fictionalized as "Hampden College" in her first novel, "The Secret History." Way back when TSH first came out, I noticed a stack of signed copies in Square Books on the Oxford, Mississippi square, and bought a copy. I was absolutely mesmerized by the book, and read it in basically one long, continuous sitting over the course of a weekend. I thought it was the best book I'd ever read, and to this day I still count it among the best books I've read. I've given copies of TSH as gifts numerous times over the intervening years, and I've recommended it even more frequently.
Thus, it was with great excitement that I awaited the publishing of Donna Tartt's second novel. I couldn't believe that, after the phenomenal success of TSH, she was taking as long as she was to write her second book, and several times over the years I went to the Internet to try to wade through the many conflicting rumors as to when her next book might arrive. I read the initial reviews of "The Little Friend," which were not very positive, with skepticism, and I hoped very much that they were inaccurate.
Having read the TLF, however, I am very, very disappointed to report that the reviews were, in fact, accurate, and that "The Little Friend" is not even in the same league with "The Secret History."
The primary problem with TLF from my perspective is that it is, in places, boring. Mind numbingly, excruciatingly boring. By the end of the first 100 pages, you have the gist of the plot down and, unfortunately, can also anticipate its resolution. However, Ms.
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