Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl
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Author: Marisha PesslEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN: 0143112120
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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I loved this book.
The narrator has an excellent tone of voice and it never falls into the trap of other teen-narrated books - this girl is no idiot. Blue Van Meer has been raised only by her high-brow, low-comfort father since her mother's death in a car crash years earlier, and they've travelled from place to place ever since; partly due to his modern ideas of schooling, and partly due to his inability to treat women well.
She's finally landed at St. Galway's, where the hip, culty kids she's being forced towards (very Secret History) make it clear they don't want her around. But unlike so many of these books, she doesn't really want to be around them either, and it's her fresh eye and lack of usual gullibility that make this book worth reading. Why should she hang around with these kids? Is her father hiding something from her? And what truths does the death of Hannah Schneider hide - or reveal?
Bloody brilliant. Addictive. You'll give it to everyone.
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