The Secret History
Published: 2011-10-19
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780307765697
Format:
ebook
Pages: 544
File size (e-book): 514 KB
Chosen by: Cayce
Meeting: FBC Recommended R2.027
Description:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years**
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.