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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality. "A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled." --The New York Times
The Secret History
$18.00
Book details
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- April 13, 2004
- ISBN
- 9781400031702
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Pages
- 576
- Language
- English
- Series
- Vintage Contemporaries
- BISAC
- Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General, Literary, Thrillers, Suspense, Psychological, Coming of Age
- Themes
- New England, Coming of Age
- Related subjects
- Teacher-student relationships, College students, Classicists, Murderers, Vermont, Psychological fiction, College stories