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Also by Marisha Pessl:

Darkly, December 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Night Film, August 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, May 2007
Paperback
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, September 2006
Hardcover

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS
By: Marisha Pessl

Penguin
May 2007
On Sale: May 18, 2008
528 pages
ISBN: 0143112120
EAN: 9780143112129
Paperback
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Fiction Women's Fiction

“Dazzling,” (People) “Exuberant,” (Vogue) “marvelously entertaining,” (The Dallas Morning News) Marisha Pessl’s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of this “cracking good read”4 is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway school, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with “visual aids” drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages.

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All Things Considered - May 18, 2008