![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Physics, does just this, but with such panache and plotting and. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class, this mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction. Marisha Pessl’s brilliant debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity. 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. Marisha Pessls debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, focuses around one year in the life of the protagonist and narrator, Blue Van Meer. ![]() One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. ![]() Gallway school, she finds some?a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. 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. ?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. ![]()
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