A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch.

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

"A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled." --The New York Times

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/05/1992
ISBN: 9780679410324
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 9.50h x 5.90w x 1.59d

Review Citations: Booklist 09/01/1992 pg. 5
Mademoiselle 09/01/2000 pg. 181
Library Journal 09/01/1992
Publishers Weekly 06/29/1992
Entertainment Weekly 11/25/2011 pg. 77
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 23
Entertainment Weekly 11/28/2014 pg. 66