Secret History
Donna Tartt. Ballantine Books, $7.99 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-8041-1135-5
. Entertaining, evocative first novel; 12 weeks on PW 's bestseller list. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 08/30/1993
Genre: Fiction
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