Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Paperback)
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"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.
About the Author
Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. This is her first novel.
Praise for Special Topics in Calamity Physics…
A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel. (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)
Place[s] the author alongside young, eclectic talents like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Zadie Smith. (Vogue)
Hip, ambitious and imaginative. (Los Angeles Times)
This skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more. The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl's tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring. (The New York Times Book Review)
Pessl's literary pyrotechnics are just a sideshow; it's her irresistible heroine Blue who makes the novel's heart beat. (People, Critic's Choice)
Wholly original and riotously entertaining. (The Christian Science Monitor)
An arresting story and that rarest of delights, a great ending. (Salon.com)
Required reading for devotees of inventive new fiction. (The New York Times)
