Special topics in calamity physics
By: Marisha Pessl.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780670037773
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Othello / William Shakespeare; title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce; title: Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë; title: The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins; title: Brave New World / Aldous Huxley; title: Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos; title: Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert; title: Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw; title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie; title: Moby Dick / Herman Melville; title: A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway; title: Women in Love / D.H. Lawrence; title: "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" / John Cheever; title: Sweet Bird of Youth / Tennessee Williams; title: Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov; title: The Sleeping Beauty and of fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; title: A Room with a View / E.M. Forster; title: Howl and other poems / Allen Ginsberg; title: The Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare; title: Deliverance / James Dickey; title: Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad; title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey; title: One Hundred Years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez; title: Bleak House / Charles Dickens; title: The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler; title: Justine / Marquis de Sade; title: Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda; title: Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe; title: The Nocturnal Conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey; title: Che Guevara Talks to Young People / Ernesto Guevara de la Serna; title: "Good Country People" / Flannery O'Connor; title: The Trial / Franz Kafka; title: Paradise Lost / John Milton; title: The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett; title: Metamorphoses / Ovid.