The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. *  "Destined to become a special kind of classic." --The New York Times Book Review

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.

The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2014, as well as the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Fiction. Donna Tartt is the author of The Goldfinch. The Hidden History and The Little Friend, two of her novels, have been translated into 30 languages. She is a graduate of Bennington College and was born in Greenwood, Mississippi.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781400031696
ISBN 10	1400031699
Title	The Little Friend
Author	Donna Tartt
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-10-28
Number of pages	640
Prizes	Winner of Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults., Short-listed for Orange Prize 2003
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.