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<P>The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our...
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<P>The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.</p><P>In this brilliant debut novel, Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance.</p><P>Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.</p><P>Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another ... a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brough to brutal life ... and lead to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning ...</p>
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| Authors | Donna Tartt |
| Fiction Genre | Education • True Crime |
| Fiction Subgenre | Unknown |
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| Kaplan, James, Vanity Fair: "It is Donna Tartt's ability to make us believe, utterly, in all this--at the moment of sacred insanity, we are at one with the celebrants. We would follow her tumbling mellifluous prose anywhere. The best writers are necromancers, levitation their specialty. But it is human nature to think of mirrors and wires even at the moment of enchantment: Where did these people come from?" | |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc (September 01, 1992) Measurements: 9.5"(h) x 6"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.7 lbs. ISBN: 9780679410324 |
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A Compelling Literary Thriller
Pros: A well-written, intriguing literary thriller. Cons: It may be difficult to put this novel down. Intellectual Suspense Novel
Pros: Infuses a familiar theme with new life and mystery Cons: Lengthy descriptions are lovely, but may lose some readers Still thinking about it days later!
Pros: extremely well written, suspense, complicated characters Cons: none Bottom Line: A True Angst Ridden Modern Classic
Pros: fast-paced, well-written, suspenseful, intriguing, thought provoking Cons: anti-climatic Bottom Line: Donna Tartt on the Banality of Murder
Pros: It stands to be read more than ten times. I know, I´ve tried. Cons: The book had to end somewhere... The Best Book I Ever Read
Pros: Well written, great characters, surprises at every turn Cons: Absolutely nothing An absorbing, intelligent and highly readable novel
Pros: Smart, suspenseful, absorbing Cons: None The Secret History - More than a Murder Thriller
Pros: Intense and gripping. Original and complex characters. Philosophically and psychologically important. Cons: Scattered with Latin and Greek idioms. Confusing if you don't speak the language, but tolerable. Bottom Line: |
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