Penguin Celebrations: The Secret History
Penguin : Penguin Celebrations
Paperback : 06 Sep 2007
£7.99
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Synopsis
A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their privileged lives apart, they drag Richard into the nightmare that engulfs them. And soon they enter a terrifying heart of darkness from which they may never return …Reviews
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The Secret History tells the story of a group of classics students at an élite American college, who are cerebral, obsessive and finally murderous ... it is a haunting, compelling and brilliant piece of fiction.
The Times
Excellent ...Donna Tartt has discovered not the usual collegiate mix of sex, drugs and rock and roll, but a heart of darkness as stony and chilling as any Greek tragedian ever plumbed ...she keeps the pace fast and the tension taught ...A thinking person's thriller.
Newsday
As a profoundly serious examination of remorse and its effects ... this book is as moving as it is insightful. As a murder mystery it is one of the best I have ever read. But as a first novel it takes my breath away, it is so accomplished.
Ruth Rendell
Enthralling . . . Imagine the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' Bacchae set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis's Rules of Attraction and told in the elegant ruminative voice of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited ... forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled ... ferociously well-paced ...remarkably powerful novel .
The New York Times
Tartt's erudition sprinkles the text like sequins ... Brilliant.
Sunday Times
Product details
Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141035215
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 640
Published : 06 Sep 2007
Publisher : Penguin
Penguin Celebrations: The Secret History
£7.99
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