It is only fitting that Artemis, the goddess of fertility
and hunting, graces the cover of Donna Tartt’s superbly paced debut thriller,
The Secret History. In a nod to the goddess of “swift death,” a closely knit group of college students, studying the
classics at a small Vermont liberal arts institution, kills one of its own. In the echo chamber that results, morality walks on a slippery slope. This
coming-of-age story (with glorious descriptions of Vermont) beautifully explores uncomfortable questions about ethics
and courage. What’s scary here is not the crime itself but just how darned
plausible Tartt makes it all seem.
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