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There were others with the same sentiment and mentioned how her earlier work the secret history was her best book. Ultimately, is he more a product of manufacture or of fate. Born in 1963 in greenwood, mississippi, donna louise tartt spent her childhood growing up on the edge of the delta. Later, tartt went on to study classics and english literature at the university of mississippi having enrolled there in 1981. Tartt was the 2003 winner of the wh smith literary award for the little friend. Published in 20, it was tartt s first novel since the little friend in 2002 the novel is a comingofage tale told in the first person. I finished it over a month ago and i still think about it every day, its so close to my heart.
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