The Little Friend: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (535 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005PRJJOQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 151 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Are you a Donna Tartt Fan?? If so - you will love this book. I am one of the people that read The Goldfinch - and then went back and read Donna Tartt's earlier books because I really enjoy her writing style. I think that if you like one Tartt book - you'll like them all. I say that because either you enjoy spending time with very flawed characters or you do not. I am some someone that does. Donna Tarrt creates b. Elise Hamilton said One of the Best Books I've Ever Read. Had I paid any attention to the reviews at either Goodreads or Amazon, I might have been dissuaded from reading The Little Friend by those who didn't like the book, calling it "boring", "too long", "bad ending". That would have been a sad thing, because I'm putting it in that Difficult-to-Get-Into club of mine called "One of the Best Books I've Ever Read". It's very hard for me to see. Reveals the feelings, thoughts and motivations of the characters Elisabetta I love Donna Tartt's writing style she frequently changes from describing what one character is thinking and feeling to what another is thinking and feeling. It reminds me of the writing of Tolstoy, which I also love tremendously.The story about Harriet is the most developed, and some of her relatives, and to a lesser degree what's happening with her friend, Hely, and later to the con
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. The second novel by Donna Tartt, bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. 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
Wisely, this novel eschews a feel-good resolution. From Publishers Weekly Widely anticipated over the decade since her debut in The Secret History, Tartt's second novel confirms her talent as a superb storyteller, sophisticated observer of human nature and keen appraiser of ethics and morality. Although every character is sharply etched, 12-year-old Harriet-smart, stubborn, willful-is as vivid as a torchlight. If Tartt wandered into melodrama in The Secret History, this time she's achieved perfect control over her material, melding suspense, character study and social background. Her knowledge of Southern ethos-the importance of family, of heritage, of race and class-is central to the plot, as is her take on Southerners' ability to construct a repertoire, veering toward mythology, of tales of the past. The death of nine-year-old Robin Cleve Dufresnes, found hanging from a tree in his own backyard in Alexandria, Miss., has never been solved.