The Secret History

The Secret History

Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, <i>The Goldfinch</i>, established herself as a major talent with <i>The Secret</i> <i>History,</i> which has become a contemporary classic.<br><br>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.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>