A Study Guide For Donna Tartts The Little Friend

Author : Donna Tartt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030787348X
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Friend written by Donna Tartt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410351297
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375392198
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend" written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Donna Tartt's "The Little Friend," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Newsmakers for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Donna Tartt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307765695
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History written by Donna Tartt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. “A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment.... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times

Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : Brightsummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 9782808016445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by Brightsummaries.com. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Secret History with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Secret History by Donna Tartt, which follows a group of highly intelligent Classics students at the elite Hampden College in New England. Richard Papen, who comes from a humble background in California, joins this small, privileged group and becomes increasingly embedded in their world of wealth and intellectual pursuits. However, darkness lies just below the surface, and soon bursts out when one of the group is murdered. The novel traces the events leading up to the killing and examines its life-changing impact on the remaining students. The Secret History is Donna Tartt's first novel; she is also known for her novels The Little Friend and The Goldfinch. Find out everything you need to know about The Secret History in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: - A complete plot summary - Character studies - Key themes and symbols - Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Corrie Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781730722868
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pride and Prejudice and Passports written by Corrie Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 New Release!Elisa Benitez is happy to help her family clean cabins over the summer, but when her older sister falls hard for one of their rich guests, Elisa expects heartbreak. Her sister is a Dreamer, an undocumented immigrant, and he's an elected state representative.Even worse is his infuriating friend Darcy! He's arrogant, rude, and based on a comment she overheard, probably racist. He's one of those guys who get by on money and looks, and she wouldn't mind poking a hole in his self-image.Darcy certainly didn't intend to fall for a beautiful, opinionated Latina on his short vacation to the mountains. Elisa would sooner turn off his hot-water heater than agree with him about anything. Why is debating with her more fun than agreeing with anyone else?But when her little sister runs away, and her parents are scared to go to the police, Darcy realizes just how serious Elisa is. And how serious his own feelings have become.Pride and Prejudice and Passports is a modern retelling with heart and wit, a wholesome romance that brings Darcy and Elizabeth to life all over again.

Author : Donna Tartt
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316248673
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goldfinch written by Donna Tartt and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner from the author of The Secret History that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review). Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).

Author : Tracy Hargreaves
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826453204
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donna Tartt's The Secret History written by Tracy Hargreaves and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series gives readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. Each title includes a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

Author : Ottessa Moshfegh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143128752
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eileen written by Ottessa Moshfegh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Anne Hathaway Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature.Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

Author : Emma Gannon
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524869988
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olive written by Emma Gannon and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel about the life-changing choices we make about careers, love, friendship, and motherhood from bestselling UK author Emma Gannon. Olive is many things. Independent. Driven. Loyal. And a little bit adrift. She’s okay with still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations and big choices to be made. So when her best friends’ lives branch away towards marriage and motherhood, leaving the path they’ve always followed together, she starts to question her choices—because life according to Olive looks a little bit different. Moving, memorable, and a mirror for anyone at a crossroads, OLIVE has a little bit of all of us. Told with humor and great warmth, this is a modern tale about the obstacle course of adulthood and the challenges of having—and deciding not to have—children.