Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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It began with simple ^ sleeplessness. It had been almost a year since I'd found Hannah dead, and I thought I'd managed to erase all traces of f that night within myself A I was wrong.
Calamity Physics: The resulting explosion of energy, light, heartbreak, and wonder as Blue van Meer enters a small, elite school in a sleepy mountain town. Blue's highly unusual past draws her to a charismatic group of friends at St. Gallway (see page Z. "wild, wayward youths," Everyman Parenting) and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. Asudden drowning, a series of inexplicable events, and finally the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries. And Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instinct and cultural lexicon to guide her.
"A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Witty and exuberant . . . placeCs] the author alongside young, eclectic talents like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Zadie... Tovább

Fülszöveg

It began with simple ^ sleeplessness. It had been almost a year since I'd found Hannah dead, and I thought I'd managed to erase all traces of f that night within myself A I was wrong.
Calamity Physics: The resulting explosion of energy, light, heartbreak, and wonder as Blue van Meer enters a small, elite school in a sleepy mountain town. Blue's highly unusual past draws her to a charismatic group of friends at St. Gallway (see page Z. "wild, wayward youths," Everyman Parenting) and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. Asudden drowning, a series of inexplicable events, and finally the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries. And Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instinct and cultural lexicon to guide her.
"A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Witty and exuberant . . . placeCs] the author alongside young, eclectic talents like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Zadie Smith." -Vogue
"Hip, ambitious and imaginative."
—Los Angeles Times
"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 Yorl< Times Book Review
"Dazzling . . . 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)
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