When the novel begins, we are transported years earlier to Richard’s sleepy hometown of Plano, where he is dissatisfied with his stale, mundane life and yearns to study Classics, and, by chance, comes across a brochure for Hampden College in the fictional town of Hampden, Vermont, and swiftly applies and is accepted. The novel opens with a prologue from the point of view of Richard Papen, a Californian teen, discussing the murder of a friend named Bunny. She rattled around in the classroom cupboard, produced a battered old book with an imposing, onyx-black cover, placed it on my desk and went back to her seat. When I was fifteen, I was sat in an English lesson at school when my teacher noticed that I had finished my book and was daydreaming.
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