Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.
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唐娜·塔特,美国当代著名女作家,其代表作有长篇小说《校园秘史》、《小友》等。1963年,她出生于密西西比州的格林伍德,在五岁时,她写了第一首诗,十三岁时在密西西比州的一份文学评论杂志上发表了第一首十四行诗。1992年,小说《校园秘史》的出版震惊了文坛,评论家认为,《校园秘史》充满悬疑,探寻了人类罪恶的本性,并对古典与当代的价值和哲学作了比较,是一位天才作者的闪亮登场。 2002年,随着《小友》的出版,唐娜·塔特证明自己并不是昙花一现的小角色。评论家高度赞扬了这本小说,认为它具有散文的文风,人物性格鲜明,叙述紧凑而绵密。2004年,她成为英国坎农格特出版社发起的“重述神话”写作项目的首批入选作家。
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She was breathing hard, and deep circles of red burned high on her bright cheeks; in all my life I had never seen anyone so maddeniningly beautiful as she was at that moment.
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