Book summaryRichard Pepen comes to the campus of Hampden College in Vermont to escape the featureless, dusty California of his childhood, and to further his studies of ancient Greek. In this tightly woven liberal arts community there are five other students of Papen's chosen subject, all of them intimidatingly remote from the rest of the student body and fiercely loyal to their professor and mentor, the stiffly eccentric Julian Morrow. Each of his students has surrendered control of their college curriculum entirely to him. Papen makes a similar sacrifice and progresses from these external rituals and loyalties to a much deeper, more disturbing involvement in Dionysian rites and murder. The consuming effects of his guilt and atonement occupy the latter sections of the novel. Media reviews"It is Donna Tartt's ability to make us believe, utterly, in all this--at the moment of sacred insanity, we are at one with the celebrants. We would follow her tumbling mellifluous prose anywhere. The best writers are necromancers, levitation their specialty. But it is human nature to think of mirrors and wires even at the moment of enchantment: Where did these people come from?" |
The Secret History : A Novelby Tartt, DonnaFirst Edition
Book description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1992. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Very Good/Very Good, gently rubbed printed acetate dustwrapper. Photographically illustrated boards. A highly attractive copy of Tartt's first novel. First edition . ISBN: 0679410325. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. COLLEGE TEACHERS FICTION VERMONT PSYCHOLOGICAL.
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