Special Topics in Calamity Physics |
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| Author:
| Pessl, Marisha |
| Read by:
| Card, Emily Janice |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921334-64-1 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2007 |
| Publisher: | Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
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| Imprint: | Bolinda Audio |
| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | AUD $175.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Quills Awards.
A dazzling debut novel that has received rave reviews around the world.
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,...
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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.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Quills Awards.
A dazzling debut novel that has received rave reviews around the world.
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 crushisms. 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.
"Made me stay up all night reading. I loved this book." - Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveller's Wife.
"Anyone of a bookish disposition will love this novel, as will anyone seeking a first rate thriller. 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 from the moment of publication." - Sunday Telegraph.
"This is undoubtedly one of the most impressive debut novels I have ever read...It is, perhaps, Pessl's level of precision, coupled, of course, with her ability to create a plot that stops you doing anything apart from read it, that makes her such an exciting writer." - Independent on Sunday.
"The most flashily erudite first novel since Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated. With its pirouettes and cartwheels, its tireless annotations and digressions, it has a similar whiz-kid eagerness to wow the reader... This book's gradual upward trajectory leads it toward mounting suspense, a hall-of-mirrors finale and a coda that is supremely inspired." - The New