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| | DONNA TARTT |
 | | Tartt offers very few clues as to the identity of Robin’s murderer, but the most vivid of these comes from the family maid, who remembers chasing poor white boys away from the house just before Robin’s body is discovered. | | | Tartt managed to make even more melodramatic and bizarre events (involving Dionysian rites and intimations of satanic power) seem entirely plausible, but this time around her storytelling is considerably less assured. | | | One of the pleasures of her novel is watching Tartt map the familiar tropes and motifs of classic adventure fiction on to the contemporary setting (or near-contemporary setting, since the story takes place in the 1970s, when Tartt herself would have been Harriet’s age). |
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http://www.arlindo-correia.com/donna_tartt.html
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| | Borders - Feature - Childhood Gothic: Donna Tartt's Long-Awaited Second Novel |
| | Tartt represents the inner lives of a variety of characters and deftly incorporates several points of view—from that of Harriet’s sweetly oblivious friend Hely to the malignant old matriarch of the Ratliff clan. | | | A taste for frightening tales is something Tartt has in common with her young protagonist. | | | When asked if she sympathizes with some of her creations more than others, Tartt replies, "No: It’s part of the writer’s job to understand all his or her characters, even characters who may be unsettling or unlikable to the reader." |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=tartt
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| | Missing In Action: Donna Tartt's Secret History Detour May 1999 |
| | There are tales of Tartt holed up on a tropical island (she bought it with the proceeds, the story goes), secluding herself to bang the next one out. | | | The case of the missing Tartt was falling to pieces. | | | Her cautionary tale of highbrow murder set in the dead of winter against the thinly disguised backdrop of Vermont's exclusive Bennington College (where Tartt is an alum), charmed crusty book critics, while drawing in the John Grisham set. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8543/ddetour.htm
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| | Bookslut The Little Friend by Donna Tartt |
| | If nothing else it is an interesting answer to the problem of writing the 'difficult second novel' but seeing as this was such a pleasure to read it would be a pity to think that we'd have to wait until 2012 for her next work. | | | It's a long book, perhaps a little too long (my own copy ran to 546 pages but the one due for publication seems to be a slightly trimmer 480) and some of the characters are not quite as well constructed as others. | | | It's been ten years since the publication of her first novel The Secret History - a campus-set tale of murder and the consequences of putting too much faith in intellectualism over morality. |
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http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2002_10_000339.php
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Little Friend: Books |
| | Donna Tartt obviously faced a potentially difficult task living up to the expectations generated for her second book by the success of the first - the astonishing Secret History - and the ten year wait only heightened the hype, and the potential fall. | | | Characterisation is the main pull of this book and there is a wonderful cast of eccentric doddery great aunts, white trailer trash, a second hand car salesman, a somnolent sister and born again Christian preachers with a penchant for snakes. | | | 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. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747562113
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| | Amazon.com: The Secret History: Books: Donna Tartt |
| | Donna Tartt's intellectual thriller "The Secret History" was a rarity among the bestsellers of a decade ago: It was written with plenty of literate references, brimming over with the remnants of Greece. | | | Donna Tartt writes with a sure hand and confidence, name-dropping just about every Greek and Roman scholar you can think of (also Milton and Donne for good measure). | | | She has a way of writing that sweeps along in a tangle of beautiful words, glossing over the flaws those words have created, without losing the aura of Greek tragedy. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140167773?v=glance
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| | Review The Little Friend by Donna Tartt |
| | There's no question that Donna Tartt is one hell of a great writer. | | | She's the kind of character Tartt clearly loves to build: dimensional, highly detailed, with a clear voice all her own. | | | She's drawn perfectly, and if you asked me to narrow down this very long book to one redeeming quality, it would be the quality with which Tartt has rendered her heroine. |
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http://www.januarymagazine.com/fiction/littlefriend.html
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| | DONNA TARTT |
| | Tartt talks lovingly of her own mother as pretty and vivacious, 'not at all like the mother in the book. | | | Tartt's first book, The Secret History, was published in 1992, when she was 28. | | | There doesn't have to be a murder in real life for the novel to say something about the author; novels are not just feats of technicality, like mending a car, they are works of art, which come from the mind and soul and energy of their authors. |
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http://www.arlindo-correia.com/081202.html
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| | BookPage Interview November 2002: Donna Tartt |
| | Departing from the edgy tone of The Secret History, The Little Friend has a prose style bespeaking Tartt's own fondness for 19th century literature. | | | What her two books have in common is murder. | | | It seems to me literature is just literature, wherever it comes from." As usual, Tartt gives people something to talk about. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0211bp/donna_tartt.html
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| | The Little Friend by Donna Tartt PopMatters Book Review |
| | Tartt's, perhaps, was the release awaited with the most bated breath, after the runaway success of her first book, The Secret History, published nearly ten years ago. | | | Tartt's first book was about escape and fantasy and seeing how much one could get away with. | | | In some ways, the readers of The Secret History wished they could live in the book, whereas here, readers will want to get as far away as possible from the life depicted, with its humidity, rot, murder, mix of too-bright-lights and too-dark corners. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/books/reviews/l/little-friend.shtml
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| | Donna Tartt, Mississippi writer and author of The Little Friend and The Secret History |
| | Tartt gave the reader a sense of who each person is and how much it would take for them to commit murder. | | | Tartt has written one novel, The Secret History and two short stories, A Christmas Pageant and A Garter's Snake. | | | BOMC review of Tartt's newest book The Little Friend. |
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http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Tartt.html
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| | Donna Tartt Messageboard - Print Page |
| | I was in line to get my book signed and the woman in front of me inquired about her marital status (for her son) and Donna's reply was | | | Donna Tartt Shrine >> Donna Tartt - author >> Who else thinks Donna Tartt is hot? | | | Then when you read her stuff, you were in love. |
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http://www.purpleglitter.com/cgi-bin/donna_tartt/messageboard/YaBB.cgi?board=donnatartt;action=print;num=1088865134
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| | The Little Friend by Donna Tartt |
| | Unlike some of you, I have nothing in the Tartt literary canon to compare it to, but I can tell you that it stands quite well on its own two feet, thank you. | | | The book is wonderful, even if it is 555 pages long (yes, I found that a little daunting at first). | | | If that sounds like a poor description, I plead guilty, primarily because I never read the book. |
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http://www.joebobbriggs.com/bookclub/reviews/L/littlefriend.html
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| | Chicago Sun-Times: Donna Tartt avoids the sophomore jinx |
| | One can only hope that Tartt's third novel will combine her undoubted dramatic gifts with a more concentrated set of themes and ideas. | | | Many are the literati who will open this book hoping for the best, i.e. | | | These are the most intensely felt scenes in the book: phobic, lurid, breathless, campfire tales that only lack the culminating BOO! |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20021027/ai_n12488290
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| | MWP: Donna Tartt (1963- ) |
| | Two years later, Urban was able to stir up a bidding war among publishers for the 866-page manuscript; the winner was Knopf, who paid a massive $450,000 for the book and ordered a 75,000-copy first-printing (compared to about 10,000 copies that most first novels get). | | | Variously interpreted as suspenseful mystery, an exploration of the nature of evil, and a comparison of classical and modern values and philosophy, The Secret History is a noteworthy debut from a talented contemporary author. | | | The novel remained on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for thirteen weeks, reaching as high as number two. |
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http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/tartt_donna
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| | BBC - BBC Four Profile - Donna Tartt |
| | But despite being translated into 23 languages, Tartt remains "a writer, not a TV personality", whose job it is to "dive deep". | | | Now aged 38, the gamine-featured, pint-sized perfectionist is unfazed by the transitory nature of celebrity, concentrating instead on "the five books I have in me". | | | Until the publication of her second book in October 2002, Tartt endured rumours of writer's block and nervous hermithood. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/donna-tartt.shtml
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| | The Little Friend - Donna Tartt |
| | It is gambling on the reputation of Donna Tartt’s 1992 debut, the bestselling | | | This is an author who is not afraid to manipulate and to be seen doing so. | | | Tartt is at her best in the prologue which narrates the event. |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Books2/LittleFriend.htm
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| | the unofficial donna tartt / secret history site |
| | We are publishing, this week, a book about The Secret History, by Tracy Hargreaves at the University of Leeds in England. | | | I'd love to write a book a year but I don't think I'd have any fans". | | | Donna Tartt's new novel - with the provisional title "Tribulation" is scheduled for publication early next year. |
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8543/dmain.htm
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| | Donna Tartt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It was published in 1992 to great demand, even overwhelming a 75,000 book order for the first printing and becoming a bestseller. | | | Tartt began writing her first novel The Secret History during her second year at Bennington. | | | The plot concerns a close-knit group of students and their professor of classics, who embark upon a secretive plan to stage a bacchanal. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt
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| | eBay - Book: The Secret History (ISBN: 0804111359) |
| | "It is Donna Tartt's ability to make us believe, utterly, in all this--at the moment of sacred insanity, we are at one with the celebrants. | | | The Secret History + ELLERY QUEEN Book lot Crime Tartt | | | The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992) 1ST ED. |
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http://product.ebay.com/The-Secret-History_ISBN_0804111359_W0QQfvcsZ1392QQsoprZ619555
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| | The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - read excerpt |
| | Tartt has written a grownup book that captures the dark, Lord of the Flies side of childhood and classic children's literature." | | | Tartt cultivated her love of literature at a very young age. | | | For the rest of her life, Charlotte Cleve would blame herself for her son's death because she had decided to have the Mother's Day dinner at six in the evening instead of noon, after church, which is when the Cleves usually had it. |
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http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts/littlefriend.htm
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| | The Secret History (Donna Tartt) - book review |
| | When I first came across The Secret History in the bookshop, I checked it out in the hope that it was a historical novel based on Procopius' history of the same title (a contemporary "behind the scenes" account of sixth century Byzantium). | | | The Secret History (Donna Tartt) - book review | | | Tartt has managed to combine the complexity and careful detail of a novel with the beautiful and terrible simplicity of drama, and The Secret History is one of the more engaging works of fiction I have read for some time. |
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http://dannyreviews.com/h/The_Secret_History.html
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| | Mick's Eclectic: GWBW – Donna Tartt |
| | Donna Tartt wrote her first book eleven years ago. | | | Why oh why didn’t somebody help her with the story! | | | It was trumpeted with much fanfare in the book world, and she was paid a lot of money for it, and it was worth it. |
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http://mickpegg.typepad.com/micks_eclectic/2003/12/gwbw_donna_tart.html
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| | Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Donna Tartt |
| | The Secret History has been translated into twenty-four languages and is available in hardcover from Knopf. | | | Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. | | | Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world... |
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http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=30597
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| | Fall Preview 2002-Books-Donna Tartt |
| | With a first printing of 300,000, Knopf is marketing the novel as a major fall event -- Sheeeee's back! | | | Donna Tartt admits that it has been annoying during the past decade to have people rudely insinuate that she is a one-book phenomenon. | | | A decade after her first hit novel, The Secret History, Donna Tartt is back. |
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http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/urban/seasons/fallpreview2002/n_7615
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| | Book Reviews - The Little Friend by Donna Tartt |
| | It's taken her ten years to come out with her sophomore effort, the newly released The Little Friend. | | | Donna Tartt's debut novel The Secret History was published to popular acclaim back in 1992. | | | Your one stop for finding multiple professional reviews of recently released books. |
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http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/little_friend
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| | Donna Tartt, The Secret History |
| | Not when Donna Tartt is telling the story. | | | You might think that identifying a murder victim and his murderers at the very beginning of a novel, particularly a long novel such as this, would make for a less than suspenseful read. | | | This basically reinforces the obvious fact that Tartt is an incredibly gifted writer. |
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http://www.rambles.net/tartt_secret92.html
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| | BBC - collective - donna tartt 'the little friend' |
| | Tartt’s writing can be languid and detailed, feeling as though the story is moving in real time, but she also demonstrates her mastery of suspense with exhilarating results. | | | Donna Tartt knocks other authors out of the water when it comes to being a literary sensation. | | | If you consider this content to be in breach of the House Rules please alert our moderators. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A864227
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| | Salon.com Audio "The Little Friend" |
| | Donna Tartt is the author of "The Secret History" (1992), and "The Little Friend" is her much anticipated second novel. | | | Hear Tartt read from her new book, courtesy of Random House Audio. | | | Donna Tartt reads from her 1992 debut novel about New England college students whose obsession with ancient rites leads to murder. |
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http://www.salon.com/audio/fiction/2002/10/30/tartt_little_friend
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| | identity theory the narrative thread - donna tartt |
| | Donna Tartt is at work on a novella and her third novel. | | | Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's and The Oxford American. | | | DT: (laughs) I have to think about that. |
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http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum77.html
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| | The Secret History |
| | Tartt, your novel was published in 1992 - eleven freakin' years ago. | | | Tartt, there is a web site out there that you should be aware of. | | | I know it; you know it, why don't the retards over at the Donna Tartt Shrine know it? |
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http://www.rodneyanonymous.com/read/secret/secret.html
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| | Arts Literature Authors T Tartt, Donna |
| | The Unofficial Donna Tartt / Secret History Site - Fansite about the author and her work, a bulletin board, articles and interviews. | | | MWP - Donna Tartt (1963- ) - Information about the writer, including a biographical and critical article, a list of works she has written, a selected bibliography of secondary resources, and additional Internet resources. | | | Mississippi Writers and Musicians - Donna Tartt - Major works, biography, and a review of The Secret History. |
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http://www.iper1.com/iper1-odp/scat/id/Arts/Literature/Authors/T/Tartt,_Donna
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| | Donna Tartt Message Board |
| | What was your favorite scene in Donna Tartt's books? | | | What sort of novel should Tartt write/have written next? | | | Be the first to post a message on this board! |
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http://www.allreaders.com/Board.asp?BoardID=2775
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| | ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Secret History by Donna Tartt |
| | Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. | | | ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Secret History by Donna Tartt | | | What is the meaning of Richard's final dream? |
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| | Donna Tartt Shrine |
| | Donna Tartt Shrine includes news, bio, bibliography, The Secret History, translations, non-fiction, writings, press, reviews, photo gallery, message board, chat, polls, downloads, seamless backgrounds, hotbar skins, links, guestbook, mailing list, search, site map, contact. |
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http://www.purpleglitter.com/donna_tartt
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