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001 2005058474
003 DLC
005 20070117082313.0
008 051219s2006 nyua 000 1 eng
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020 $a067003777X
020 $a9780670037773
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm62755674
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050 00 $aPS3616.E825$bS67 2006
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aPessl, Marisha.
245 10 $aSpecial topics in calamity physics /$cMarisha Pessl.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2006.
300 $a514 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aA 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.
650 0 $aYoung women$vFiction.
655 7 $aMystery fiction.$2gsafd