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The Secret History

The Secret History

Current price: $39.95
Publication Date: October 15th, 2002
Publisher:
HarperAudio
ISBN:
9780060518042
Pages:
0

Description

A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick International Bestseller

“Enthralling. . . . A remarkably powerful novel.” —The New York Times

In this brilliant novel from Donna Tartt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch, comes a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance.

Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life—in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.

Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound 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 lead to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning...

About the Author

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College. The Secret History was her debut novel.

Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and educated at the University of Mississippi and Bennington College. The Secret History was her debut novel.

Praise for The Secret History

“Enthralling. . . . A remarkably powerful novel. . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.”  — New York Times

“Powerful . . . Enthralling . . . A ferociously well-paced entertainment.” — New York Times

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

“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)

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

“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.” — Philadelphia Inquirer

"A beautifully written story, well told, funny, sad, scary, and impossible to leave alone until I finished." — John Grisham