The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.' - The Philadephia Inquirer 'A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, pleasurably devoured. Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth.' - The Times (London) 'Her writing bewitches us. Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.' - The Village Voice 'Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.' - Vogue 'A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction. Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' -The New York Times 'An accomplished psychological thriller. A remarkably powerful novel a ferociously well-paced entertainment. Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' - The New York Times Book Review 'A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, pleasurably devoured.Gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite.' Vanity Fair, ' The Secret History succeeds magnificently. A remarkably powerful novel a ferociously wll-paced entertainment. The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.' - The Philadephia Inquirer 'Enthralling. Packed with literary allusion and told with a sophistication and texture that owes much more to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth.' - The Times (London), ' The Secret History succeeds magnificently. The Secret History is a wonderfully beguiling book, a journey backward to the fierce and heady friendships of our school days, when all of us believed in our power to conjure up divinity and to be forgiven any sin.' - The Philadephia Inquirer 'A haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction. Gorgeously written, relentlessly erudite.' - Vanity Fair 'Her writing bewitches us.

Tartt has a stunning command of the lyrical.' - The Village Voice 'Beautifully written, suspenseful from start to finish.' - Vogue 'A huge, mesmerizing, galloping read, pleasurably devoured.

Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.' - The New York Times 'An accomplished psychological thriller. 'A remarkably powerful novel a ferociously well-paced entertainment.

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