The Secret History

Informationen zum Autor Donna Tartt is an American author who has achieved critical and public acclaim for her novels, which have been published in forty languages. Her first novel, The Secret History , was published in 1992. In 2003 she received the WH Smith Literary Award for her novel, The Little Friend , which was also nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch. Klappentext Donna Tartt was born in Greenwood! Mississippi! and is a graduate of Bennington College. She is the author of the novels The Secret History and The Little Friend ! which have been translated into thirty languages! and The Goldfinch . Zusammenfassung Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and for ever.

Product details

• Authors: Donna Tartt, Tartt Donna
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780140167771
• ISBN: 978-0-14-016777-1
• No. of pages: 659
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 439 g
• Series: LITERARY FICTIO; LITERARY FICTIO
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Crime & mystery, Vermont, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Relationships: friends / peer groups, Fiction: general and literary, c 1990 to c 1999, US Northeast: New England, Esoteric thriller, Seasonal interest: Autumn, Fall