Special topics in calamity physics / Marisha Pessl.
A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 067003777X
- ISBN: 9780670037773
- Physical Description: 514 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2006.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Chapter titles taken from classic literary works.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction -- Othello / William Shakespeare -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce -- Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë -- House of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Woman in white / Wilkie Collins -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Les liaisons dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- Mysterious affair at Styles / Agatha Christie -- Moby Dick / Herman Melville -- A moveable feast / Ernest Hemingway -- Women in love / D. H. Lawrence -- "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" / John Cheever -- Sweet bird of youth / Tennessee Williams -- Laughter in the dark / Vladimir Nabokov -- Sleeping beauty and other fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- A room with a view / E. M. Forster -- Howl and other poems / Allen Ginsberg -- Taming of the shrew / William Shakespeare -- Deliverance / James Dickey -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey -- One hundred years of solitude / Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez -- Bleak House / Charles Dickens -- Big sleep / Raymond Chandler -- Justine / Marquis de Sade -- Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe -- Nocturnal conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey -- Che Guevara talks to young people / Ernesto Guevara de la Serna -- "Good Country People" / Flannery O'Connor -- Trial / Franz Kafka -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Metamorphoses / Ovid.
Search for related items by subject
- Subject:
- Young women > Fiction.
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery fiction.
Available copies
- 30 of 32 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 3 of 3 copies available at Rutherford County Library System.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 32 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountains Branch Library | M Pes (Text) | 38801101097167 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Norris Public Library | F Pes (Text) | 30254100382552 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Rutherford County Library | NC M Pes (Text) | 38801101091848 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
