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Donna Tartt
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| Title: |
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The Little Friend |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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555 |
| Date: |
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2002-1 |
| ISBN: |
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0965474925 |
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Alfred A. Knopf |
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1.0 pounds |
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12.0 x 5.0 x 1.0 inches |
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3 Jessica C. (USA: DC), Sara M (USA: CA), Jenny (USA: AL) |
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3 katepressley (USA: KY), Yasmin Santiago (México), Maya (USA: CA) |
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The narrative takes place in Mississippi in the late 1970s, but the central event occurs twelve years earlier, when nine-year-old Robin Dufresnes is found hanging from a tree in his own back yard. Robin's murder, which is never solved, virtually destroys his family. Years later, twelve-year-old Harriet Dufresnes -- who was an infant when Robin died and who is haunted by images of the brother she never knew -- sets out to locate his killer. Harriet's quest becomes a meditation on grief, obsession, and revenge. When Harriet identifies a likely suspect -- Danny Ratliffe, a drug-addled member of an impoverished redneck family -- she pursues him with a remorseless, sometimes appalling, single-mindedness. As the long, leisurely narrative unfolds, Tartt presents a cumulatively compelling portrait of a rural Southern community and of two deeply damaged families -- the Dufresnes and the Ratliffes -- whose destinies become intertwined in unpredictable ways.
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