The Secret History By (Donna Tartt)  (Hardcover, Donna Tartt)

Review The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled ? New York Times So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure ? Guardian A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read ? Vanity Fair Donna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. She's a gorgeous storyteller -- Stephen King Takes my breath away -- Ruth Rendell Brilliant and compulsive ? Evening Standard A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction ... Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth ? The Times