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Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Bildungsromans Detective and mystery fiction Fiction Mystery fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marisha Pessl |
ISBN: | 067003777X 9780670037773 0143112120 9780143112129 0670916072 9780670916078 9780739477137 0739477137 |
OCLC Number: | 62755674 |
Awards: | Winner of New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year. |
Description: | 514 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Marisha Pessl. |
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Praise for Special Topics in Calamity Physics"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."-Janet Maslin, The New York Times"The joys of this shrewdly playful narrative lie not only in the high-low darts and dives of Pessl's tricky plotting, but in her prose, which floats and runs as if by instinct, unpremeditated and unerring. . . . This skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more."-The New York Times Book Review"A blockbuster debut."-People (Critic's Choice)"Gripping and dark, funny and poignant . . . Pessl's talent for verbal acrobatics keeps the pages flipping."-USA Today"Witty and exuberant . . . Pessl's pyrotechnics place her alongside young, eclectic talents like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Zadie Smith."-Vogue"Hip, ambitious, and imaginative . . . It's always refreshing to find a writer who takes such joy in the magical tricks words can perform."-Los Angeles Times"A frisky, smarty-pants debut . . . An escapist extravaganza packed with literary and pop culture allusions, mischievous characterizations, erotic intrigue, murders, and unstoppable narrative energy."-Entertainment Weekly"Extravagant, witty and dark, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a sprawling campus novel, an intricate murder mystery, a coming-of-age tale and a sly satire of intellectualism and academia. Her prose is . . . vivid, erupting in a freefall of wordplay, wisecracks, encyclopedia tidbits, and a barrage of cultural references. . . . Her enthusiasm for language is a delight."-Miami Herald"There is a voice here to like, part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield, part Fran Leibowitz, and part Nora Ephron."-Harper's"A real novel, one of substance and breadth, with an arresting story and that rarest of delights, a great ending."-Salon"Special Topics in Calamity Physics made me stay up all night reading; in the morning it seemed like one of those parties where everyone is too cool for you but you desperately want to know them anyway. It reminded me of my lost, bad-girl days. I loved this book."-Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry"Beneath the foam of this exuberant debut is a dark, strong drink."-Jonathan Franzen, National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections and Freedom Read more...


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