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Donna Tartt pays homage to Robert Louis Stevenson.(Review)

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20021021
Author:Spufford, Francis

Byline: FRANCIS SPUFFORD

THE LITTLE FRIEND by Donna Tartt (Bloomsbury, pound sterling16.99) AMERE pinpoint in his face, but gleaming like a crumb of glass."

That's Long John Silver's eye, in Treasure Island, just before the smiling pirate suddenly commits a murder. "From beneath a slick, lashless eyelid, the preacher's eye sparkled, colourfully, like a blue chip of glass." That's a close-up by Donna Tartt of one of a family of Mississippi rednecks just as dangerous as Robert Louis Stevenson's pirates, just as much monsters of impulse and appetite.

Tartt loves ...

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