I often feel strangely wasteful re-reading books, but not this one
Murder, certainly: poor Bunny, loathsome but pitiable in his own way, begins the novel dead and will end it that way, with only the last months of his life rehashed in between. And love, undoubtedly: Henry’s solemn, profound love for Camilla, Richard’s more banal attraction to her, and the deformed, metastasised passion between Charles and Camilla.
Tartt is an exceptional writer: deft, imaginative, elegant and agile. She read classics at Bennington College in Vermont, on which the novel‘s Hampden is based, and was only 29 whenwas published. It had taken her eight years to write, so this exceptional, polished, bright-dark gem of a book began in the mind of a 21-year-old.
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