Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic Donna Tartts novel is aremarkable achievementboth compelling and elegant dramatic and playful. Underthe influen... » 

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic Donna Tartts novel is aremarkable achievementboth compelling and elegant dramatic and playful. Underthe influence of their charismatic classics professor a group of clevereccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinkingand living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of theircontemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality theirlives are changed profoundly and forever and they discover how hard it can beto truly live and how easy it is to kill. «