The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 1992
Devastation Rating
betrayal literary fiction philosophical loss
Our Take
We know from the first page that Bunny dies, and Tartt makes us wait and want it and then punishes us for wanting it. The Greek class at Hampden College is a closed world of beauty and rot. A novel about complicity dressed as a thriller, and the guilt spreads outward until it covers everything.
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