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"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." (The Sunday Telegraph)
“An escapist extravaganza packed with literary and pop culture allusions, mischievous characterisations, erotic intrigue, murders and unstoppable narrative energy.” (Entertainment Weekly)
"One of the most impressive debut novels I have ever read ... 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." (The Independent on Sunday)
"Made me stay up all night reading. I loved this book." (Audrey Niffenegger)
"A wordy, funny book." (The New York Observer)
"Blue Van Meer writes of the year her life 'unstitched like a snagged sweater'.This first novel is a hybrid, part coming-of-age story, part murder mystery. But first and foremost, it's a dazzling prose circus, full of hilarious metaphors and studded with footnotes, some real, many invented. Emily Janice Card (daughter of novelist Orson Scott Card) gives a bravura performance. She's an innocent, even foolish teenage girl with the bookishness of an Oxford don. Card dances through this minefield of a text, never getting lost in a sentence or mispronouncing a word. The absence of the drawings present in the text is noticeable but in no way mars this spirited aural romp." (AudioFile Magazine)
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- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 014102917X
- ISBN 13 9780141029177
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