Special topics in calamity physics
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9780670037773
9780143112129
9780143112129
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| Grouped Work ID | 7795b88e-7ecd-50c5-8d5d-a11039507469 |
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| Grouping Title | special topics in calamity physics |
| Grouping Author | marisha pessl |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-09-21 05:12:54AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-09-21 05:18:02AM |
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Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts.
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.
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9780670037773
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2006
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Viking
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Young women -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
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Special topics in calamity physics
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Special topics in calamity physics
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