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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Marisha Pessl
Penguin
May 2007
On Sale: May 18, 2008
528 pages
ISBN: 0143112120
EAN: 9780143112129
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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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