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A small group of classics students at a Vermont college, under the spell of their charismatic professor, makes a fateful moral choice. Told in reverse—we know from the first page who died—this is a brooding meditation on beauty, guilt, and the corruption of the privileged.
Kiss and fade to black — literary fiction tone
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Read-Alikes
If We Were Villains, Babel, The Goldfinch
