Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine by Donna Tartt

Sleepytown: A Southern Gothic Childhood, with Codeine Reviews

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  Cosmonautbullfrog

  I think I just figured out why she is the way she is...
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  Seren

  It feels wrong to ‘review’ this but I am very glad I read this.
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  Anna

  'Sleepytown' is a brilliant example of Donna Tartt's ability to bring words to life, reawake your imagination, and enable you to be aware of the world, to think, and to feel. She's my faculty of consciousness and thought.
  This short autobiographical piece of writing is intelligent, innovative, absorbing, and fascinating. It firmly held my attention, and I highly recommend it.
  She'll always be one of my favorite writers of all time 🖤
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  Jan

  For Donna Tartt these short stories are ‘ultra short track’ compared to her novels. I think she masters this genre as well. My favorite story is A garter snake, because of the well-built tension. JM
  
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  cameron

  is donna tartt my favorite author? yes. do i passionately despise the goldfinch? yes. we exist
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  Oliver Fletcher

  Why we stan
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  ୨୧ anushay ୨୧

  now i see from where the excruciating detail of the little friend comes from... i wish she wrote more autobiographical things I can't get enough of her writing !
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  Alina

  no yeah, makes sense
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  Jackson

  This is an article, published in 1992 - the same year Donna Tartt's breakout novel 'The Secret History' was first published - that offers a glimpse into her childhood and upbringing.
  
  It certainly grants insight into Donna's way of thinking, and partially explains - or at least makes sense of - how she has come to write the kinds of novels she has so far.
  
  Insightful and well-worth checking out for any fans of her work.
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  Meg

  is it six pages long? yes. is it still 5 stars? yes. super absorbing and intriguing look at what the hell influenced miss thing to write.... like that. love
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  Roxy Marcus

  Donna Tartt my queen always
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  acacia

  so that's why..
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  Aseel

  My fever deliriums-unlike the heavy, leaden codeine hallucinations-were characterized by a whirlwind, giddy quality, a nightmarish sense of lightness. When I closed my eyes, I felt like an escaped balloon, sailing in a rapid helium rush to the ceiling; when I opened them again, I was pulled back down to my bed with a jolt, as if someone had suddenly grabbed my string and given me a sharp, fast tug to earth. The room spun like a merry-go-round; my stuffed animals, suddenly glitter-eyed and sinister, gazed hungrily at me from the mantelpiece. And my bed refused to stay still. It rocked on its moorings, pulled from beneath by some fast, spiraling undertow in the old blue carpet that threatened to break the rope entirely and sweep me, whirling bow to stern in helpless circles, out to sea.
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  Jessica (JT)

  This is a look into the childhood of
  Donna Tartt. It's honestly a little depressing. You can definitely see where she gets some of her ideas.
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  Ellen

  Ye ask and sometimes ye receive.
  
  A little bit of Donna Tartt's early childhood (published in Harpers in my birth month! Auspicious) being drunk on codeine and convinced she would die before her grandfather, who doted on her but in a way where he gave her a lot of codeine. A bit of a growing up story, a bit of being a strange child story, a bit of a southern gathering up story (you do see some reflections into A Little Life from this!); found here:
  https://w3.ric.edu/faculty/rpotter/te...
  
  
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  Cathy

  Donna Tartt is an incredibly gifted writer. Anyone reading this little piece of her
  Life story will be brought to the sweetly drugged, childlike state of the unique, odd, and richly peopled existence she lived as a very young girl. Oh, to write like that!
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  Danna Hall

  She is someone who writes truthfully about their childhood in the south. I felt a great bit of nostalgia in reading this.
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  clarissa

  well. now i understand
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  Rebecca

  donna tartt that one girl who doesn't play about dark academia as a literary aesthetic ... i think she should stick to the short story medium actually this was fun
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  Frankie

  Well that definitely answers some of my questions about Tartt's fiction...
  
  The (wo)man, the myth, the legend.
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  Mira

  Kind of hard to rate. The writing is beautiful, as is par for the course for Tartt. This story provides a lot of insight into her writing, so if you're a fan of her I would definitely suggest it. Super interesting!
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  Manon

  tja, niet echt indrukwekkend, maar is ook maar een klein boekje.