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Too Many Snakes
Feb. 13th, 2008 08:47 pmNov 2007
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt - Bloomsbury, 2002
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This is another American family drama featuring basically unsympathetic characters, but unlike The Corrections I thought that this one was pretty good. Quite why it appealed when the other didn’t I’m not sure - Tartt has an exceptionally vivid style which perhaps makes the characters easier to envision and therefore easier to engage with, if not care about. This is just as well, because plot-wise and stylistically the book is another attempt at genre-melding that doesn’t quite come off.
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The Little Friend - Donna Tartt - Bloomsbury, 2002
* * * *
This is another American family drama featuring basically unsympathetic characters, but unlike The Corrections I thought that this one was pretty good. Quite why it appealed when the other didn’t I’m not sure - Tartt has an exceptionally vivid style which perhaps makes the characters easier to envision and therefore easier to engage with, if not care about. This is just as well, because plot-wise and stylistically the book is another attempt at genre-melding that doesn’t quite come off.
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