Like i suppose at one time in my life i might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. Set in new england, it tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at hampden college, a small, elite vermont college based upon bennington college, where tartt was a student between 1982 and 1986. Donna tartt, the secret history i suppose at one time in my life i might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. Donna tartt excels at turning places of ordinary privilege into places tinged by anxiety and death. The secret history by bclarkgreene see profile 112217.
I am creating this so that we may discuss donna tartt s the secret history. A remarkably powerful novel and a ferociously wellpaced entertainment. Her novel the goldfinch won the pulitzer prize in 2014. The secret history by donna tartt 9780140167771 dymocks. A bunch of eversomandarin college kids in a small vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact dionysian frenzies in the woods.
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