Never does he dream that within a few months, one of their number will be dead.Īt the centre of this book, both figuratively and literally, is a murder. Richard is somewhat dazzled by his fellow students: Henry Winter, dark-suited, stiff, aloof and extremely intelligent Francis Abernathy, angular and elegant the beautiful twins, Charles and Camilla Macaulay, and Bunny Corcoran, loud and cheery. Having done two years of study in Ancient Greek, he jumps at the opportunity to join an exclusive class of five students studying The Classics under the very selective Julian Morrow. At the age of nineteen, Richard Papen goes to Hampden College in Vermont, primarily to get away from his parents and his depressingly boring hometown of Plano, CA. The Secret History is the first novel by American author, Donna Tartt. He had the far more remarkable talent of making himself invisible – in a room, in a car, a virtual ability to dematerialise at will – and perhaps this gift was only the converse of that one: the sudden concentration of his wandering molecules rendering his shadowy form solid, all at once, a metamorphosis startling the viewer." Or maybe it was a question of his making people see. Maybe it was because of his clothes, which were like one of those lame but curiously impenetrable disguises from a comic book (why does no one ever see that 'bookish' Clark Kent, without his glasses, is Superman?). "…people never seemed to notice at first how big Henry was.
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