Special topics in calamity physics / Marisha Pessl.
| Author/creator | Pessl, Marisha |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 2007. |
| Description | 514 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Othello / William Shakespeare -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce -- Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë -- The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie -- Moby Dick / Herman Melville -- A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway -- Women in Love / D.H. Lawrence -- "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" / John Cheever -- Sweet Bird of Youth / Tennessee Williams -- Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch -- A Room with a View / E.M. Forster -- Howl and other poems / Allen Ginsberg -- The Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare -- Deliverance / James Dickey -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey -- One Hundred Years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez -- Bleak House / Charles Dickens -- The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler -- Justine / Marquis de Sade -- Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe -- The Nocturnal Conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey -- Che Guevara Talks to Young People / Ernesto Guevara de la Serna -- "Good Country People" / Flannery O'Connor -- The Trial / Franz Kafka -- Paradise Lost / John Milton -- The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Metamorphoses / Ovid. |
| Abstract | In a plot modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course, teen narrator Blue Van Meer and her father Gareth end ten years of wandering by settling in Stockton, N.C. There, Blue befriends, sort of, a group of eccentric geniuses (referred to by their classmates as the Bluebloods) and their ringleader, film studies teacher Hannah Schneider. As Blue becomes enmeshed with Hannah and the Bluebloods, the novel becomes a murder mystery when a friend of Hannah's dies at a party the kids have crashed. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner NC Roberts copy Purchased from Gobi, 5/4/2026 |
| Genre/form | Young adult works. |
| Genre/form | Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Mystery fiction. |
| Genre/form | Detective and mystery fiction. |
| ISBN | 9780143112129 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0143112120 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | NC Roberts | PS3616.E825 S67 2007 | ✔ Available | Request Material |