The Secret History

Author: Donna Tartt

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9780141037691
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : September 2008
  • : 181mm X 111mm
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Review by Fantine;

'When Richard Papen is accepted into an elite and secluded New England college he sheds his depressing reality and takes on the persona of the cool calm Californian. He is instantly drawn to the enigmatic and exclusive classics club and soon becomes entangled in an intricate web of deceit, conspiracy and murder. Everything about this novel is crisp; the vivid backdrop of a cocaine-fuelled 80’s campus, the effortlessly distinct characterizations, morally complex situations and the inevitable repercussions, oh and also bacchic rituals, animal sacrifices and multiple dead bodies. I think about this book constantly, an all-time favourite I cannot recommend it more highly.'

-Fantine, Bookseller at Collins Moonee Ponds

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Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, 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, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

Reviews

"It takes my breath away". --Ruth Rendell "Enthralling ... image the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' Bacchae set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction... forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled... ferociously well-paced... remarkably powerful". --The New York Times Be assured this really is as good everyone says it is. -- April