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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret History lives rent free in my head. It is a masterpiece. A thing of rare beauty. A tour de force. A literary triumph. βOne likes to think thereβs something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if Iβve learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular…
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