This is her first novel.“Dad on Child-rearing: "There's no education superior to travel. Marisha Pessl was born in 1977 and lives in New York. I loved this book' Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
' Special Topics in Calamity Physics made me stay up all night reading in the morning it seemed like one of those parties where everyone is too cool for you but you desperately want to know them anyway. It stops you doing anything apart from reading it ' Independent on Sunday 'One of the most impressive debut novels I have ever read. It's a brilliant debut, guaranteed to join the ranks of The Secret History and The Virgin Suicides as one of those rare books to become a cult hit and instant classic' Sunday Telegraph
'Any Tartt fan disappointed that her second novel had little in common with her debut should rush out and buy this book immediately. 'Beneath the foam of this exuberant debut is a dark, strong drink' Jonathan Franzen, author of, The Corrections Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class (with hand-drawn Visual Aids), Blue's wickedly funny yet poignant tale reveals how the imagination finds meaning in the most bewildering times, the ways people of all ages strive for connection, and how the darkest of secrets can set us free. 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 crushisms. Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a mesmerizing debut. I thought I'd managed to erase all traces of that night within myself.Įvery 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. 'I wrote this account one year after I'd found Hannah Dead. 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.
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