Pessl, Marisha.

Special topics in calamity physics / Marisha Pessl. - New York : Viking, c2006. - 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"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.

ISBN: 067003777X 9780670037773

LCCN: 2005058474

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Young women--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Mystery fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3616.E825 / S67 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6