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!'Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times
CONTRIBUTORS: Donna TarttEAN: 9780140167771COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 437 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
Vermont, c 1990 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery fiction, Esoteric thriller, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Relationships: friends / peer groups
The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled , So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure, A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller, Takes my breath away
Donna Tartt is the author of the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, andThe Goldfinch. Her work has been published in forty languages and her third novel, The Goldfinch, was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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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!'Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times
CONTRIBUTORS: Donna TarttEAN: 9780140167771COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 437 gHEIGHT: 198 cm
Vermont, c 1990 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery fiction, Esoteric thriller, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Relationships: friends / peer groups
Donna Tartt is the author of the novels The Secret History, The Little Friend, andThe Goldfinch. Her work has been published in forty languages and her third novel, The Goldfinch, was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Supreme use of the English language in describing sex and culture and how they function together, how they transform and inform our lives. How we are subject to our biological whims, and how culture has attempted to be champion over our bestial nature's. It's truly a spectacular book