Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic,Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant,dramatic and playful.
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 away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780140167771Number of pages: 640Weight: 440 gDimensions: 192 x 128 x 34 mm
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'The Secret History succeeds magnificently...A remarkably powerful novel (and) a ferociously well-paced entertainment...Forceful,cerebral,and impeccably controlled'- New York Times
'So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure'- Guardian
'A huge,mesmerizing,galloping read'- Vanity Fair
'Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense,she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller'- Stephen King
'Takes my breath away'- Ruth Rendell
'Brilliant and compulsive'- Evening Standard
'A haunting,compelling,and brilliant piece of fiction...Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth'- The Times
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is one of the great contemporary American novelists. Her trio of novels - The Secret History,The Little Friend and The Goldfinch - form a consistently brilliant body of work and are regarded as modern classics.
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