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The Little Friend

The Little Friend 1

by Donna Tartt
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Publication Date: 06/06/2005
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'In a literary age of diet and dearth, Tartt invites us to feast ... the opening tragedy strikes a note of rich, flamboyant Southern Gothic that resonates throughout' - Independent

'You will rarely have read better ... Because of Tartt's mastery of suspense, this book will grip readers all the way through to its bitter end' - Guardian

'Destined to become a special kind of classic - a book that precocious young readers pluck from their parents' shelves and devour with surreptitious eagerness, thrilled to discover a writer who seems at once to read their minds and to offer up the sweet-and-sour fruits of exotic, forbidden knowledge' - New York Times Book Review
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Donna Tartt's huge selling second novel, follow up to the worldwide bestseller The Secret History

The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, rose the water tower, its surface all washed out by the sun. Harriet, cautiously, stepped towards it in the weedy clearing. Around and around it she walked, around the rusted metal legs.

One day is never, ever discussed by the Cleve family. The day that nine-year-old Robin was found hanging by the neck from a tree in their front garden. Twelve years later the family are no nearer to uncovering the truth of what happened to him.

Inspired by Houdini and Robert Louis Stevenson, twelve-year-old Harriet sets out to find her brother's murderer - and punish him. But what starts out as a child's game soon becomes a dangerous journey into the menacing underworld of a small Mississippi town.
ISBN:
9780747573647
9780747573647
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-06-2005
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
576
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm
Weight:
0.4kg
Donna Tartt

Born in Greenwood Mississippi, 1963, Donna Tartt was educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College and is the authour of three novels. They are The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002), and The Goldfinch (2013). She won the WH Smith Literary Award for The Little Friend in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for The Goldfinch in 2014.

She lives in Mississippi and New York City.

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The Little Friend is a good portrayal of the internal life of a precocious child - the conclusions Harriet draws in her search for her brother's killer are simultaneously sensible and dangerous. Her voice is pinned down perfectly and as usual Donna Tartt's descriptions are beautiful. If The Little Friend suffers from anything it's that The Secret History and The Goldfinch are such great books that The Little Friend, by being merely good, falls short in comparison.

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