Special topics in calamity physics

Hardcover, 514 pages

English language

Published 2006 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-03777-3
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OCLC Number:
62755674

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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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I only finished this one because I recommended it to my local library, and they bought it. My act of contrition is to write this review and publicly apologize to the residents of Dauphin County, PA. I’m endlessly sorry and will carry the guilt of my impulsive decision for the rest of my days.

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  • Young women -- Fiction.