Special Topics in Calamity Physics

副标题: 灾难物理学专题

ISBN: 9780670037773

出版社: Viking Adult

出版年: 2006-08-03

页数: 514

定价: USD 25.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious 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 cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (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.

Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pessl's debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. It combines the suspense of Hitchcock, the self-parody of Dave Eggers, and the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt with a dazzling intelligence and wit entirely Pessl's own.

作者简介

佩斯尔是生于1977年的女新秀，此乃其小说处女作，引发评论界的惊世之呼。小说图文并茂，以文学经典课的课业提纲结构全书，每章(36章)标题均有自《奥塞罗》到《失乐园》的出处，而标题和故事的内容又有着机巧的联系，甚至附有考试卷子和佩斯尔自己画的教学图表。故事借一个女高中生蓝蓝·范米尔（Bluevan Meer，一个有着特殊天分的早熟女孩，有着一位神秘莫测的学者父亲和一位迷恋蝴蝶的早逝母亲）之口，叙述校园里的杀人凶案——迷人女教师汉娜离奇暴死。蓝蓝不得不以才智，穿过充满悬疑的文学地图，去找出死亡的真相。在这本书里，我们看到希区柯克的悬念，戴夫·埃格斯的自嘲，多纳·塔特的叙述天才，更重要的是，书中闪烁着只属于Marisha　Pessl的智慧和灵性。

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