![]() ![]() ![]() But what is most remarkable about the book is its own classical poise - its sovereign style and moral assurance. It’s as gripping as a murder story should be, even though the murders and murderers are no mystery as in Greek tragedy, it’s mainly a question of retribution. It’s the story of a group of pampered and precocious students at a small New England college who devote themselves to ancient Greek culture and get more than they bargained for - tragedy, fate, Furies. This is actually a good, even profound novel. Book publishers, moviemakers, and glossy magazines have already descended upon Tartt in the form of a shower of gold, but don’t be misled by the glitter and clatter. Not only does Donna Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History (Knopf, $23), give a major role to the frenzied orgiastic rites of the Greek god Dionysius, it comes to us amid the frenzied, orgiastic rites of the American god Publicity. ![]()
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