The Secret History by Donna Tartt7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Secret History has maintained a cult following ever since: one bar in Manhattan’s East Village has even wallpapered its bathroom with pages from the book. Tartt was 29 when the novel was published (Alfred A Knopf bought the rights for $450,000). The qualms of a few reviewers (the characters were not “entirely plausible”, it was a novel “not really about the glamour of evil, but the glamour of glamour”) proved insufficient to prevent its immediate installation as a “modern classic”, as the latest edition’s back cover proclaims. The book was subject to a bidding war in 1991 and much anticipated before its release. Hardly alarming, though, was the arrival of Tartt’s debut. ![]() “Genuine beauty is always alarming”: such is the conviction of the Greek professor in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, which was published 30 years ago this month. ![]()
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