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Book Review
Copyright (c) 1994, Steve Powers
All rights reserved
The Secret History - Donna Tartt (Ivy Books, $6.99).
No time wasted in this novel; the very first paragraph shocks the reader
into sitting up and taking notice by telling what happened and who did
it.
The rest of the novel is spent backtracking,carefully laying the
foundation for the shocking events that transpire and slowly but
steadily uncovering the hows and whys of the situation.
Richard Papen, nineteen years old and in New England for the first time
to attend Hampden College, is quickly indoctrinated into a group of
Greek scholars, five students who, with their professor, have formed a
rather elite society of sorts.
At first, Richard and his fellow students have a rather ordinary
relationship, one of student-to-student and nothing else. As events
slowly unwind, their lives become entwined with one another in some
truly bizarre ways, eventually leading to a totally unforeseen tragedy.
This is a richly-hued tale, one that revels in strong imagery and a
stirring recognition of how strange the ties that bind people can be.
Absorbing and mesmerizing, Donna Tartt's well-crafted story pulls the
reader along to its fateful conclusion.