Description

ISBN-13:	9781400031702
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/13/2004
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	387
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)

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.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