The Secret History & The Goldfinch By Donna Tartt 2 Books Collection Set
<p><P>The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.<P>In this brilliant debut novel, Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of golden youth corrupted by its own moral arrogance.<P>Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life — in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.<P>Yet as Richard was accepted and drawn into their inner circle, he learned a terrifying secret that bound them to one another ... a secret about an incident in the woods in the dead of night where an ancient rite was brough to brutal life ... and lead to a gruesome death. And that was just the beginning ...</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>. Entertaining, evocative first novel; 12 weeks on PW 's bestseller list. (Oct.)</p>