The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
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The Secret History

Author: Donna Tartt

Narrator: Donna Tartt

Unabridged: 22 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: 09/01/2004

Synopsis

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.In this brilliant debut novel, Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance.Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life -- in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another ... a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brough to brutal life ... and lead to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning ...

About Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History, was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend, which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Michelle on 2012-08-18 22:15:59

This book was so drawn out and boring.

Goodreads review by emma on July 10, 2024

My original review of this wasn't much of anything, because I believed (and still kind of do) that everything worth saying about this book has been said. However, there are things that I believe no one should say emerging in real time, and so contributing my likely already-expressed thoughts might co......more

Goodreads review by Martine on September 16, 2009

The first paragraph of The Secret History roughly sums up the mood of the book. In it, the narrator, Richard Papen, says that he thinks his fatal flaw is 'a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs'. If you can relate to these words, chances are you'll love The Secret History. If not, you'll......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on August 23, 2015

Five Things About The Secret History. This is going to be a difficult book for me to talk about. I finished it days ago but I find myself a little verklempt, I’ll admit. It’s been a long time since a book has stuck with me so completely as this one, and I say that having had a quite remarkable year......more

Goodreads review by chan ☆ on December 04, 2022

don't ask me why but i think that if this book were turned into a movie and its name was changed to fit the subject matter it'd run into copyright issues cause... it'd be A Goofy Movie. this shit was goofy. like a legitimate laugh. no idea what the purpose of this book was beyond a really weak commen......more

Goodreads review by lisa (fc hollywood's version) on January 27, 2025

every single character belongs in a mental asylum (affectionate)......more

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