Harriet, the younger child, is considered particularly difficult as she is intensely smart but uncompromising. Twelve years later Robin's two younger sisters, Allison and Harriet, are now sixteen and twelve years old, respectively. Only nine years old at the time of his death, Robin's murder causes his mother, Charlotte, to sink into a listless depression and his father, Dixon, to abandon the family on the pretext of work. 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. That's widely thought to be the most difficult form." Plot The Secret History was all from the point of view of Richard, a single camera, but the new book is symphonic, like War and Peace. In an interview with The Guardian in 2002, Tartt described The Little Friend as "a frightening, scary book about children coming into contact with the world of adults in a frightening way." Tartt told the interviewer that The Little Friend was intentionally different from The Secret History, stating: "I wanted to take on a completely different set of technical problems. As well, the dynamics of Harriet's extended family–particularly her aunts–are a strong focus of the novel, as are the lifestyles and customs of contrasting Southerners. The story follows Harriet's anxiety surrounding the unexplained death of her brother, Robin, who was killed by hanging in 1964 at the age of nine. The Little Friend is a mystery adventure, centered on a young girl, Harriet Cleve Dufresnes, living in Mississippi in the early 1970s. Knopf on October 22, 2002, a decade after her first novel, The Secret History. The novel was initially published by Alfred A. The Little Friend is the second novel by the American author, Donna Tartt.
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