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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
Penguin
September 2006
On Sale: September 7, 2006
Featuring: Blue van Meer
528 pages
ISBN: 067003777X
EAN: 9780670037773
Hardcover
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Fiction | Mystery Woman Sleuth
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly
hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted
suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its
heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one
academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone
to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever,
deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary,
political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge—and is
quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high
school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in
Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic
group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah
Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah’s
friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a
confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it
all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural
references to guide—or misguide—her.
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