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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

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  • Sep 1992, 524 pages
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Cathryn Conroy

This Psychological Thriller Is Everything a Novel Should Be: Great Literature and a Page-Turner
This psychological thriller is everything a novel should be: great literature and a page-turner that will keep you up past your bedtime.

Written by Donna Tartt, this is the story of six college students in the 1980s who attend the small (fictional) Hampden College in Hampden, Vermont. They are all studying ancient Greek—to the exclusion of almost everything else—with a charismatic, brilliant, and mysterious professor they think of as a deity. The six become such close friends and are so engrossed in ancient Greece that what seems like eccentricity to others is actually more cult-like.

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a compelling read
“…people never seemed to notice at first how big Henry was. Maybe it was because of his clothes, which were like one of those lame but curiously impenetrable disguises from a comic book (why does no one ever see that ‘bookish’ Clark Kent, without his glasses, is Superman?). Or maybe it was a question of his making people see. He had the far more remarkable talent of making himself invisible – in a room, in a car, a virtual ability to dematerialise at will – and perhaps this gift was only the converse of that one: the sudden concentration of his wandering molecules rendering his shadowy form solid, all at once, amore
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