Classics, Obsession and Murder Reshape Campus Life
Intellectual glamour and moral dread sit dangerously close in Donna Tartt’s campus classic. The murder plot matters, but the deeper fascination is watching beauty, privilege and obsession lure clever students into collapse with dark, elegant inevitability and consequence. The atmosphere still feels dangerously seductive.
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Classics, Obsession and Murder Reshape Campus Life
Intellectual glamour and moral dread sit dangerously close in Donna Tartt’s campus classic. The murder plot matters, but the deeper fascination is watching beauty, privilege and obsession lure clever students into collapse with dark, elegant inevitability and consequence. The atmosphere still feels dangerously seductive.
- Book Synopsis
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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
Ideal for readers who:
- Read dark academia about classics, privilege, obsession and moral collapse.
- Are drawn to clever students pulled past ordinary rules by a charismatic professor.
- Enjoy New England campus settings where beauty and danger feel entwined.
- Lean into elegant literary suspense with a seductive, unsettling atmosphere.
- About The Author
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780140167771
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, (27 May 1993)
- Number of Pages
- 659
- Weight
- 438 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 130 x 30 mm
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