The Secret History

Donna Tartt

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009 - College students

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User Review  - nancyjean19 - LibraryThing

Similar 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 ...

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User Review  - kayanelson - LibraryThing

I 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.

About the author

Donna Tartt is a novelist, essayist and critic. Her first novel, The Secret History, was a bestseller and has been published in twenty-three languages. A paperback version of her latest novel, The Little Friend, was published in 2005. The Little Friend won the WH Smith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Secret History
• Author: Donna Tartt
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2009
• ISBN: 1408802929, 9781408802922