Once the official court historian of the emperor and an important member of the Byzantine Imperial court, Procopius wrote the History of the Wars of Justinian and worked on his great chronicles for decades. She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, and is a graduate of Bennington College.When some people fall out with their boss, they’ll write a post on Facebook about how much of a scumbag their boss is. Her novels The Secret History and The Little Friend were also international bestsellers. Hugely ambitious and compulsively readable, this is a chronicle of deception and complicity, of Dionysian abandon, of innocence corrupted by self-love and moral arrogance and, finally, it is a story of guilt and responsibility.Īn astonishing achievement by any standard, The Secret History immediately establishes Donna Tartt as a supremely gifted novelist.ĭonna Tartt won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch.
But once taken into their confidence, he and the others slowly and inevitably begin to believe in the necessity of murdering the one classmate and friend who might betray both their secret and their future. Mesmerized by his new comrades, Richard is unaware of the crime which they have committed in his dreamy, unwitting presence.
Together they study the mysteries of ancient Greek culture and spend long weekends at an old country house, reading, boating, basking in an Indian summer that stretches late into autumn. Then, amazed, Richard Papen is drawn into the ultimate inner circle: five students, worldly and self-assured, selected by a charismatic classics professor to participate in the search for truth and beauty. These are the confessions, years afterward, of a young man who found at a small Vermont college the life of privilege and intellect he'd long coveted - and rarely has the glorious experience of youth infatuated with knowledge and with itself been so achingly realized. Storytelling in the grand manner, The Secret History is a debut remarkable for its hypnotic erudition and acute psychological suspense, and for the richness of its emotions, ideas, and language.
Near fine in publisher's acetate dust jacket.
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