The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. 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 forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. |
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User Review - nancyjean19 - LibraryThingSimilar to The Goldfinch, the narrator is a morally (and sexually) ambiguous character drawn in by stronger personalities. To the reader, or to me at least, his classmates were so clearly snooty ... Read full review
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User Review - kayanelson - LibraryThingI really liked Part I of this book. Getting to know the characters leading up to the "big event." But the Part II just dragged on and on. I read this book because some people liked it more than The Goldfinch but that slow moving 2nd half makes that questionable for me. Read full review
Contents
Section 24 | 279 |
Section 25 | 281 |
Section 26 | 283 |
Section 27 | 298 |
Section 28 | 303 |
Section 29 | 304 |
Section 30 | 306 |
Section 31 | 340 |
Section 9 | 125 |
Section 10 | 126 |
Section 11 | 129 |
Section 12 | 131 |
Section 13 | 144 |
Section 14 | 157 |
Section 15 | 163 |
Section 16 | 214 |
Section 17 | 224 |
Section 18 | 227 |
Section 19 | 235 |
Section 20 | 256 |
Section 21 | 257 |
Section 22 | 261 |
Section 23 | 270 |
Section 32 | 347 |
Section 33 | 352 |
Section 34 | 354 |
Section 35 | 357 |
Section 36 | 371 |
Section 37 | 396 |
Section 38 | 447 |
Section 39 | 451 |
Section 40 | 457 |
Section 41 | 479 |
Section 42 | 507 |
Section 43 | 513 |
Section 44 | 525 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Secret History Vintage Contemporaries |
| Author | Donna Tartt |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307765695, 9780307765697 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Literary Fiction / Psychological Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense |
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