# The Little Friend - Paperback

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by **Donna Tartt** (Author)

**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  
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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.

### Front Jacket

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil.  
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.

### Author Biography

DONNA TARTT won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent Novel. _The Goldfinch_ Her novels _The Secret History_ and _The Little Friend_ were also international bestsellers. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College.

**Number of Pages:** 640

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 7.94 x 5.28 IN

**Publication Date:** October 28, 2003

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Suspense, Thrillers

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