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Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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ISBN13: 9780804111355
ISBN10: 0804111359
Condition: Standard
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"Powerful...Enthrallling...A ferociously well-paced entertainment."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Richard Papen arrived at Hampden College in New England and was quickly seduced by an elite group of five students, all Greek scholars, all worldly, self-assured, and, at first glance, all highly unapproachable. As Richard is drawn into their inner circle, he learns a terrifying secret that binds them to one another...a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brought to brutal life...and led to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning....
"A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel."
TIME
Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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Olivia, January 7, 2009 (view all comments by Olivia)
I dove for this after tearing through Pessl's "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," eager for another literary suspense-cum-prep school confidential tome. The beginning was a bit denser than I'd anticipated, yet after slogging through the first 50 or 75 pages I soon began tearing through the book. Tartt's language is bleak and beautiful, evoking the solitude and splendor of college town Vermont. Clearly she has done her Greek homework, fashioning a tragedy worthy of Sophocles or Euripides around a rather motley group of students religiously devoting their studies to the culture and history that would ultimately determine their own fates. The story is utterly mind-nourishing and when it comes to a head in one felt crescendo, it's breathtaking.
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Erin Naillon, January 8, 2008 (view all comments by Erin Naillon)
What a stunning first novel! I read it when it was first published, and I was enthralled. This is not your run-of-the-mill murder mystery, nor are the characters your typical college students. Richard, the protagonist of the novel, comes to discover the dark secret his fellow students of ancient Greek are keeping from him, and is pulled into a conspiracy of silence and lies. The novel takes a deep look at the ugly underside of a beautiful surface, where nobody is innocent, nobody is perfect, and nobody is safe. Thoroughly engrossing.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780804111355
Author:
Tartt, Donna
Publisher:
Ballantine Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Psychological
Copyright:
1992
Edition Description:
1st U.S. Ballantine ed.
Series Volume:
29
Publication Date:
October 1993
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbou
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
512
Dimensions:
6.84x4.21x1.13 in. .57 lbs.
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