Little Friend: Amazon.de: Donna Tartt: Englische Bücher

Gebundene Ausgabe: 576 Seiten
Verlag: Bloomsbury Audio; Auflage: 1 (28. Oktober 2002)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0375434976
ISBN-13: 978-0375434976
ASIN: 0747562113
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,8 x 5,6 cm

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Ten years in the writing, it can hardly be said that The Little Friend, Donna Tartt's second novel and the follow-up to her phenomenally successful and assured debut The Secret History, was rushed out. But was it worth the wait? Write about what you know is an old adage and much of the appeal of her first book was that its sense of place--an exclusive New England campus was clearly and so adroitly drawn from intimate experience. Here, the Mississippi-born Tartt utilises, piercingly on occasions, the American landscape of her own childhood.

The Cleves--Charlotte, Grandma Edith, Great Aunt Adelaide, Aunts Libby and Tat--are a southern family of noble stock but, by the early 1970s, diminished numbers and wealth; haunted by the motiveless, unsolved murder of 9-year-old Robin, "their dear little Robs", a decade earlier. (The novel opens, a la Bunny's corpse in The Secret History, with his body found hanging from a black-tupelo tree in the garden: "the toes of his limp tennis shoes dangled six inches above the grass.") Harriet, Charlotte's youngest child, "neither sweet nor pretty" like her sister, Allison, but "smart" was a baby when Robin died. Now a precocious, bookish pre-teen, she is convinced she can unravel the mystery of his death. Her chief suspects are the Ratliffs, a local clan of speed-dealing ne'er-do-wells, one of whom, Danny, had been in Robin's class. (The Ratliffs own sorry histories, and in particular the corrosive influence of matriarch Gum, are tidily juxtaposed throughout the book with the varying fortunes of the Cleves.) Harriet enlists Hely, her willing schoolyard disciple, to help investigate.

For a while the novel takes on a positively Nancy Drew-esque hue; Harriet and Hely the spies, sneaking into buildings, making off with poisonous snakes and escaping from drug-addled trailer trash on bicycles. In a significant departure from The Secret History though, Tartt does not seem unduly concerned about plot and, or, pacing. She's interested in characterisation and the bickering aunts and so many of the minor characters, the odious car dealer Mr Dial, for example, "all rectitude and pickiness, sweet moral outrage itself", are realised wonderfully. This isn't to say it's not well plotted; it is, as the dénouement eventually reveals, but it is rather languid and things can get a bit soggy midway. (Overuse of the adjective "stolidly", a word that unavoidably, if quite erroneously, calls to mind heavy fruitcake, doesn't really help either.) Tartt's Southern Gothic saga may lack the page-turning thrill of her last novel but it's, ultimately, a no less impressive or rewarding work of fiction. --Travis Elborough

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In a small Mississippi town, Harriet grows up haunted by the murder of her brother, who was found hanging from a tree when she was just a baby. Robin's killer was never identified, and the family has never recovered from the tragedy. Harriet lives largely in the world of her imagination, obsessed by Robin who is a link to the happier past. Then one summer, the year she turns twelve, Harriet decides to find his murderer and exact his revenge...

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A slow, contemplative novel 17. Juni 2005

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After reading "a secret history" I expected of this novel very much - an exciting story, strange and sinister characters and so on. So I was really dissappointed -
For all these who read "A secret history" first: This is a completely different book. It has nothing to do with a detective story! The novel is about a young girl growing up in the Southern State in a strange familiy. The whole action of the book - I think, at least 700 pages - spans perhaps five monthes. So every person, every action is illustrated in detail. The main topic of the book is Harriets developement and involvement.
If you like reading slow and introspective novels with a keen look at details, this is a more or less well written book for you. If you liked the predecessor, novels with action and fast speed, you will be dissappointed.

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Gothic Horror? 27. Juli 2005

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After "Secret History" this is definitly a step back: I never knew what this novel really intended to be - crime, psychology, drama? However it is all included (at a very slow pace), I would say it is kind of a gothic horror novel about a little girl in the deep south who tries to take revenge for her brothers mysterious death - and of course there is some twist in the end (which also explains the title). If you care for the atmosphere in a novel this is the one you would like to read (although characters tend to be a little bit flat), if you are into fast pacing action, I would not recommend it! If you liked "Secret History" you might like it, if it is your first one of Tart, you better buy "Secret History" which is really very good.

The little Friend - kein "Page-Turner" 15. Mai 2005

Nachdem ich "Die geheime Geschichte" von Donna Tartt geradezu verschlungen hatte, habe ich mir auch von diesem Buch einiges versprochen, zumal auch die Rezensionen auf der Buchrückseite einiges erwarten ließen.
Hohe Erwartungen werden jedoch nur allzu schnell enttäuscht. Zunächst fängt das Buch zwar interesant an und man taucht leicht in die Familiengeschichte der kleinen Harriet ein, doch irgendwann verliert man sich in den endlosen Beschreibungen der Neben-Charaktere und der Nebenhandlungen. Retardierende Momente haben durchaus etwas für sich, doch wenn das ganze Buch zu einem solchen gerät, ist dies sicher nicht im Sinne des Autors noch im Sinne des Lesers.
Nach 200 Seiten wird man der ewigen Beschreibungen nichtiger Situationen und Ereignisse,die so gar nichts zur Aufklärung des Mordes an Harriets kleinem Bruder beitragen, langsam aber sicher müde und man weiß nicht, wie man die noch ausstehenden 424 Seiten bewältigen soll.
Dieses Buch ist definitiv kein "Page-Turner".