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The Secret History

By Donna Tartt

By Donna Tartt

By Donna Tartt

By Donna Tartt

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Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Paperback $17.00

Apr 13, 2004 | ISBN 9781400031702

Ebook $13.99

Oct 19, 2011 | ISBN 9780307765697

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    About The Secret History

    Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.

    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 forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

    About The Secret History

    Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.

    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 forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

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    About Donna Tartt

    Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her novel The Goldfinch won the… More about Donna Tartt

    About Donna Tartt

    Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend, which have been translated into 30 languages. Her novel The Goldfinch won the… More about Donna Tartt

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 13, 2004 | 576 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400031702

    Category: Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 19, 2011 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9780307765697

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    Praise

    “The Secret History succeeds magnificently. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” –The New York Times

    “An accomplished psychological thriller. . . . Absolutely chilling. . . . Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.” —The Village Voice

    “Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.” —Vogue

    “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 (London)

    “Her writing bewitches us. . . . The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.” —The Philadephia Inquirer

    “Enthralling. . . . A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously wll-paced entertainment. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, pleasurably devoured. . . . .Gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite.” –Vanity Fair

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