Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

ISBN 10: 067003777X / ISBN 13: 9780670037773

Published by Viking Adult, 2006

About this Item

first edition, later printing, Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with some edge rubbing, not price-clipped, no remainder marks, "Signed By Author, Skyline Books" sticker on front flap, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1570225777666

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067003777X
• ISBN 13: 9780670037773
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood at the side of her aphorism-prone father, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where she falls in with a charismatic group of friends before the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.

Review

Hip, ambitious and imaginative. ("Los Angeles Times")

An arresting story and that rarest of delights, a great ending. (Salon.com)

Wholly original and riotously entertaining. ("The Christian Science Monitor")

Required reading for devotees of inventive new fiction. ("The New York Times")

A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel. (Janet Maslin, "The New York Times")

Pessls literary pyrotechnics are just a sideshow; its her irresistible heroine Blue who makes the novels heart beat. ("People," Critics Choice)

Pesslas literary pyrotechnics are just a sideshow; itas her irresistible heroine Blue who makes the novelas heart beat. ("People," Criticas Choice)

Pessl s literary pyrotechnics are just a sideshow; it s her irresistible heroine Blue who makes the novel s heart beat. ("People", Critic s Choice)

This skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more. The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl's tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring. ("The New York Times Book Review")

Pessl's literary pyrotechnics are just a sideshow; it's her irresistible heroine Blue who makes the novel's heart beat. ("People", Critic's Choice)