Donna Tartt is the author of the novels
The Secret History, The Little Friend, and
The Goldfinch. Her work has been published in forty languages and her third novel,
The Goldfinch, was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Secret History succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ...
Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled So irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasureA huge, mesmerizing, galloping readDonna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive.
She's a gorgeous storytellerTakes my breath awayBrilliant and compulsiveA 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 BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE
'Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!'
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.
'Haunting, compelling and brilliant' The Times
'Irresistible and seductive' Guardian
'Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled' New York Times
