Richard is an unreliable narrator from California, an outsider desperate to be accepted by a group of wealthy, intelligent, and morally ambiguous classics students at the fictional Hampden College in Vermont. Tartt’s voice captures Richard’s yearning, his naivete, and his slow, creeping corruption. When she reads the famous opening line—"The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation"—you feel the chill not just from the weather, but from the guilt.
While an audiobook cannot provide a musical score (and thankfully, it doesn’t), the Donna Tartt The Secret History audiobook creates a sonic landscape through Leonard’s nuanced use of tone and pacing. donna tartt the secret history audiobook
Audiobook with Donna Tartt as the narrator : r/TheSecretHistory Author: Donna Tartt Narrator: Donna Tartt (original version)