The Little Friend

De: Donna Tartt

Narrado por: Karen White

Duración: 25 h y 53 m

Resumen del Editor

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.

©2002 Donna Tartt (P)2002 Books On Tape, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

2003, Orange Prize for Fiction, Nominated

"This extraordinary book [has] a main character, a twelve-year-old girl named Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, who ranks up there with Huck Finn, Miss Havisham, Quentin Compson, and Philip Marlowe, fictional characters who don't seem in the least fictional.... To Kill a Mockingbird If is the childhood that everyone wanted and no one really had, The Little Friend is childhood as it is, by turns enchanting and terrifying." (Malcolm Jones, Newsweek)

"Breathtaking... A sublime tale rich in religious overtones, moral ambiguities, and violent, poetic acts... From its darkly enticing opening, we are held spellbound." (Lisa Shea, Elle)

"Languidly atmospheric...psychologically acute...A rich novel that takes you somewhere worth going." (The New Yorker)

"It is an exceptionally suspenseful, flawlessly written story." (Booklist)

Excessively Long

I've read her other two novels and loved them! This wasn't a terrible story by any means--just long and dense but without necessity (in my opinion). I really struggled to get through it and the ending was anticlimactic for me.

Ending sucks

Ending gives no answers
Good book though. Enjoyed listening until the end. Didn’t get to find out who the murderer was.

Minutiae

The writing is so good but the story could have been told with about a third less pages. The amount of details that get explained and have nothing to do with the story is a lot but overall the story is really good, the characters are engaging and the writing is top notch. The narrator was a bit hard to get used to but after awhile you forget about it and by the end you understand she’s actually quite good. If you’re a fan of contemporary fiction, don’t pass on this even though you may get a bit bored here and there, it’s worth the time.

Very disappointed in the ending

What did you like best about The Little Friend? What did you like least?

This book kept me intrigued and kept me guessing to the very end. However, the ending was such a big let-down. I guess I just expected more and didn't get what I expected. As I've heard it said in the south, "that just didn't end right!"

Would you ever listen to anything by Donna Tartt again?

not sure

Do you think The Little Friend needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

it needs something...if not just a little elaboration to finish-up and not leave you hanging.

You can never fail with Donna Tartt!

A beautifully detailed book about a time, a place, and the people who live there.

Narrator voice is a distraction

Unfortunately I couldn’t get past the narration of Karen White to get into the story. There is a strange sing song cadence in her voice that is really distracting to me. I might give it a go another time but for now I can’t seem to past it so I’m going to give up on the story. I might end up bypassing the audible version and read the print version instead.

Great performance bringing characters to life

This was a fun read and the performance was stellar. So many twists and turns. Very entertaining

What the he**?!?

This is like the start of 4 different stories that she just jammed together. The story drags on FOREVER and then there is no real ending. Are we supposed to think all of this was not real? Or how does the ending even apply to this book?!

Did not like it at all. And will not read another book by this author. She drones on forever about trivial things that do not move the story forward.

Very enjoyable

Interesting and unique story. Harriet would be a very interesting adult. Some parts went on longer than necessary and a few characters were introduced who seemed to have no point. But most characters were incredibly interesting. Overall I enjoyed the many hours I spent listening.

Compelling listen

Southern Gothic with memorable characters. Fabulous voice talent reading the book. I thought this was more compelling than her first novel, although less so than the Goldfinch, which is one of my favorite books.