{"product_id":"the-secret-history-9780140167771","title":"The Secret History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''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!''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Haunting, compelling and brilliant'' The Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Irresistible and seductive'' Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Enthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled'' New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds magnificently ... A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment ... \u003cb\u003eForceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled \u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo irresistible and seductive it's almost a guilty pleasure\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA huge, mesmerizing, galloping read\u003c\/b\u003e * Vanity Fair *\u003cbr\u003eDonna Tartt is an amazingly good writer. She's dense, she's allusive. \u003cb\u003eShe's a gorgeous storyteller\u003c\/b\u003e -- Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTakes my breath away\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ruth Rendell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant and compulsive\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting, compelling, and brilliant piece of fiction\u003c\/b\u003e ... 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 *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732347007319,"sku":"9780140167771","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140167771.jpg?v=1719996507","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-secret-history-9780140167771","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}