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The Secret History
Donna Tartt
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Description for The Secret History
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 434.
THE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE
'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140167771
SKU
9780140167771
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About Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She ... Read more
Reviews for The Secret History
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more