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Author:
Tartt, Donna
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —The New York Times

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Street Date:
10/19/2011
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780307765697
ASIN:
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Donna Tartt. (2011). The Secret History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Donna Tartt. 2011. The Secret History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Donna Tartt, The Secret History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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Donna Tartt. The Secret History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

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