I had a flirtation with the secret history before i ever read it.

Donna tartt the secret history cover gif. It isn t every book that becomes an instant literary sensation. Otherwise i d have just gone crazy. Buy the secret history at amazon co uk d onna tartt opens both her novels with prologues. Here is my fan trailer to my favorite book the secret history by donna tartt.

February 6 2011 the secret history by donna tartt alfred a knopf 1992 cover by chip kidd barbara de wilde forceful cerebral and impeccably controlled was how new york times critic michiko. Knopf in september 1992. The secret history by donna tartt is such a book. In the 20 years since the publication of donna tartt s the secret history following the obsessive incestuous friendship of a small group of classics students at an elite new england college the book has attracted a cultlike following of its own like its narrator richard who longs to be a part of the secretive group readers are enraptured by the seductive delights of tartt s prose.

It is a book both intimate and epic and concerned with the beautiful and the terrible. Bennington college in the 1980s was a hothouse of sex drugs and future literary stars among them donna tartt bret easton ellis and jonathan lethem. Tartt was the 2003 winner of the wh smith literary award for the little friend. The 1992 phenomenon was the debut novel by donna tartt.

Return to a campus and an era like no other. The problem was that. Her latest the little friend has a prologue set 12 years earlier than chapter one. Set in new england the novel tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at hampden college a small elite liberal arts college located in vermont based upon bennington college where tartt was a student between 1982 and 1986.

Earphones hd i. Since its release the secret history has always been something special.

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