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In “The Little Friend,” Donna Tartt tells the story of Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, a twelve-year-old girl living in Alexandria, Mississippi. Harriet’s brother, Robin, was found hanged from a tree when he was only nine years old, and the family has never recovered from the tragedy.
May 27, 2020 · The book tells the story of Harriet, a 12-year old girl living in Mississippi in the 1970s. She was just a baby when her brother, Robin, died in mysterious circumstances. During the summer holiday Harriet becomes deeply preoccupied by the unexplained death and tries to seek revenge for her brother.
Plot. In the mid-1960s, on Mother's Day, Robin, the eldest child and only son of the Dufresnes, a white family living in Mississippi, is found hanging from a tree on the family property.
- Donna Tartt
- 2002
The Little Friend is a Southern Gothic novel by Donna Tartt published in 2002. The story is set in Alexandria, Mississippi, during the 1970s. The novel revolves around the unsolved murder of Harriet Dufresnes’ brother, Robin, who was found hanging from a tree when he was just nine years old.
Oct 22, 2002 · 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.
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About The Little Friend. 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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In the following interview excerpt, Tartt discusses the influence of classic literature in The Little Friend. The Little Friend is set in 1970s Mississippi, the location of Tartt's own childhood. It is a big, expansive novel involving two very different families: the Cleves and the Ratliffs.
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