![]() ![]() A great, dense, disturbing story, wonderfully told." - Cosmopolitan ![]() "The great pleasure of the novel is the wonderful complexity and the remarkable skill with which this first novelist spins the tale. ![]() The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "A long tale of friendship, arrogance, and murder knit together with the finesse that many writers will never have. Her beautiful language, intricate plotting, fascinating characters, and intellectual energy make her debut by far the most interesting work yet from her generation." - The Boston Globe "Tartt's voice is unlike that of any of her contemporaries. As stony and chilling as any Greek tragedian ever plumbed." - New York Newsday The Secret History combines a bit of both-the unmistakable whiff of evil from William Golding's classic and the mad recklessness of priviledged youth from Bret Easton Ellis's novel of the '80s. Think Lord of the Flies, then The Rules of Attraction. "A smart, craftsman-like, viscerally compelling novel." - Time Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical." - The Village Voice A ferociously well-paced entertainment." - The New York Times "A beautifully written story, well-told, funny, sad, scary, and impossible to leave alone until I finished. ![]()
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