Special Topics in Calamity Physics [electronic resource]
Marisha Pessl2013
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Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics is an unforgettable debut
novel that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of
Alfred Hitchcock: a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted
suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit.
'I wrote this account one year after I'd found Hannah Dead.
I thought I'd managed to erase all traces of that night within myself.
But I was wrong.
Every night when I tried to sleep, I'd close my eyes and see her again, exactly
as I found her, hanging from a pine tree by an orange electrical cord, her neck
twisted like a tulip stem, her eyes seeing nothing.
Or else that was the problem. They'd seen everything.'
Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. As teenager Blue van
Meer tells her story we are hurled into a dizzying world of murder and
butterflies, womanizing and wandering, American McCulture, The Western Canon,
political radicalism and juvenile crushis...
Main title:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics [electronic resource] / Marisha Pessl
Author:
Marisha Pessl, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (528 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780241968963
Language:
English
BRN:
433547
Electronic access:
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |