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Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.
Vintage
November 2003
640 pages ISBN: 1400031699 Trade Size (reprint)
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Mystery | Thriller | Suspense
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.
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