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Special topics in calamity physics
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Special topics in calamity physics

Author: Marisha Pessl
Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:

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 be Read more...

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Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marisha Pessl
ISBN: 9780143112129 0143112120
OCLC Number: 124036669
Description: 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Marisha Pessl.

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.

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