Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic" Donna Tartt's novel " The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement
- both compelling & elegant dramatic & playful. 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 & 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 & for ever. " It takes my breath away". (Ruth Rendell). " Enthralling.. .image the plot of Dostoyevsky's Crime & Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides' " Bacchae" set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis' " The Rules of Attraction"...forceful cerebral & impeccably controlled...ferociously well-paced...remarkably powerful". (" The New York Times"). Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood Mississippi & educated at the University of Mississippi & Bennington College. She is a novelist essayist & critic & author of " The Little Friend". " The Secret History" has been translated into twenty-four languages."