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| The Little Friend by Donna Tartt | ||
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dufresnes grows up in the shadow
of her brother, who - when she was only a baby - was found hanging dead
from a black-tupelo tree in their yard. His killer was never identified,
nor has his family, in the years since, recovered from the tragedy. For Harriet, who has grown up largely unsupervised, in a world of her own imagination, her brother is a link to a glorious past she has only heard stories about or glimpsed in photograph albums. Fiercely determined, precocious far beyond her twelve, years, and steeped in the adventurous literature of Stevenson, Kipling and Conan Doyle, she resolves, one summer, to solve the murder and exact her revenge. Harriet's sole ally in this quest, her friend Hely, is devoted to her, but what they soon encounter has nothing to do with child's play: it is dark, adult, and all too menacing. A revelation of familial longing and sorrow, The Little Friend explores crime and punishment, as well as the hidden complications and consequences that hinder the pursuit of truth and justice. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Donna Tartt is a novelist, essayist and critic. She is the author of one previous novel, The Secret History, which has been translated into twenty-four languages. |
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