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