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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2007, Unabridged, Compact Disc) 
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2007, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

 
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2007, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2007-05-10
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 0143142097
ISBN-13: 9780143142096
Product ID: EPID57028895
Description: Blue Van Meer, a precocious and overeducated high-schooler, lives an unorthodox and migratory lifestyle, traveling from one quaint college town to the next with her father, a peripatetic professor. In her senior year, she is taken up by ...
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Synopsis
Blue Van Meer, a precocious and overeducated high-schooler, lives an unorthodox and migratory lifestyle, traveling from one quaint college town to the next with her father, a peripatetic professor. In her senior year, she is taken up by a quixotic band of teenage geniuses known as the Bluebloods and their eccentric ringleader, the film teacher Hannah Schneider. When Hannah ends up hanged from a tree (in a particularly anachronistic fashion), the erudite romp takes a delightfully sinister turn. Marisha Pessl's debut novel has a brilliant and immaculate architecture: each chapter is titled like a literature lecture, and the novel concludes with a final exam. The mystery plot is equally clever and masterfully orchestrated, and the characters are utterly compelling. This novel ushers in a scintillating new literary voice, a fiendish mix of Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Hitchcock, and Donna Tartt.

Details
Publication Date:2007-05-10
Narrated by:Emily Janice Card
Edition Description:Unabridged

Size
Height:5.8 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:2.2 in
Weight:16.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts. A first novel. Simultaneous with paperback.

Industry Reviews
"[T]his novel is many things at once--it's a campy, knowing take on themes that made THE SECRET HISTORY and PREP such massive bestsellers, a wry sendup of most of the Western canon, and, most importantly, a sincere and uniquely twisted look at love, coming of age, and identity." [starred review]
(05/22/2006)

"Marisha Pessl's SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS is the most flashily erudite first novel since Jonathan Safran Foer's EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED....Q: Is SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS required reading for devotees of inventive new fiction? A: Yes."
(07/31/2006)

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