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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- Gesprochen von: Emily Janice Card
- Spieldauer: 21 Std. und 38 Min.
- Kategorien: Literatur & Belletristik, Belletristik

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After a childhood spent 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 she is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (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.
Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class, Pessl's debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. It combines the suspense of Hitchcock, the self-parody of Dave Eggers, and the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt with a dazzling intelligence and wit entirely Pessl's own.
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"A stunning debut...a wry send up of most of the Western canon and, most importantly, a sincere and uniquely twisted look at love, coming of age and identity." (Publishers Weekly)
"Donna Tartt goes postmodern in this eclectically intellectual murder mystery...The writing is clever, the text rich with subtle literary allusion...Sharp, snappy fun for the literary-minded." (Kirkus)
"Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics is the most flashily erudite first novel since Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated...A whirling, glittering, multifaceted marvel, delivered in an irrepressibly smart and flamboyant new voice...Q: Is Special Topics in Calamity Physics required reading for devotees of inventive new fiction? A: Yes." (The New York Times)
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