Adele's review
The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt
Adele's review
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Adele's review
rating:
It's been a very long time since I read The Little Friend, and I only remember snatches, more like feelings, really, from certain parts of the novel. I don't feel the compulsion to read it again, as I did with The Secret History, but as with History, the prologue is a dramatic and haunting introduction and summary of the book itself. http://www.purpleglitter.com/d...
Both books begin with a murder, or, at least a death. In springtime, in bright light that's just about to change, a thunderstorm (or a snowstorm) on the way. Scores of critics have called Tartt's prologues her downfall, and I suppose that after two very similar ones, a third would be formulaic and overkill. Still, the prologue to The Little Friend is beautiful. I've read the book only once, but the prologue lots of times, many of them aloud. Tartt contains her entire story on just a couple of pages-- in The Secre...more
Both books begin with a murder, or, at least a death. In springtime, in bright light that's just about to change, a thunderstorm (or a snowstorm) on the way. Scores of critics have called Tartt's prologues her downfall, and I suppose that after two very similar ones, a third would be formulaic and overkill. Still, the prologue to The Little Friend is beautiful. I've read the book only once, but the prologue lots of times, many of them aloud. Tartt contains her entire story on just a couple of pages-- in The Secre...more
