![]() ![]() Bunny’s death triggers a manhunt by the FBI, who conclude that it was accidental. Richard decides to join their plans to get rid of Bunny, pushing him to his death in a nearby ravine. ![]() ![]() Henry confides in Richard that Henry, Francis and the Twins staged a Bacchanal in the woods, accidentally killing a passing huntsman, and are being blackmailed by Bunny who guessed the truth. Eventually, Richard senses deeper tensions, as the others endure Bunny’s cruelty and inexplicably pay his bills. He becomes enraptured by the old money and studied eccentricities of his classmates: fraternal twins Charles and Camilla Macaulay Francis Abernathy, a discreetly gay dilettante Henry Winter, an intellectual prodigy and Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran, an obnoxious frat boy from a social climbing family. Californian student Richard Papen wins a scholarship to a liberal arts university in Vermont, and joins an unorthodox Classics class led by the charismatic teacher Julian Morrow. What it’s about: Vermont, the United States, the 1980s. ![]() In which I review The Secret History, Donna Tartt’s best-selling debut novel about five students at a New England university who murder their classmate to prevent him exposing their other crimes. ![]()
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