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.
Marisha Pessl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University.
无疑是“灾难物理学”和天才少女的渊博知识让我在网上银行上付了帐。 确实是个很特别的体验,过去我还从来没有读到过哪本书会让我产生厌烦情绪,程度堪比雌性人类每月一次的那种莫名烦躁。真的是一场阅读灾难。 首先,灾难物理学除了在书中最后蓝蓝的父亲提议她为自己写的故...
評分其实具体位置我记不太清了,以为这书算冷门的,没想到看的人比想像中多。 1。大致在前五章吧,女主角提到一个“‘疯狂马匹’塑像”,我想翻译大概真的以为那是匹马,其实“crazy horse"是美国印地安人运动中一个著名酋长的名字”疯马“。他1877年被白人所俘后企图越狱而死,算...
評分无疑是“灾难物理学”和天才少女的渊博知识让我在网上银行上付了帐。 确实是个很特别的体验,过去我还从来没有读到过哪本书会让我产生厌烦情绪,程度堪比雌性人类每月一次的那种莫名烦躁。真的是一场阅读灾难。 首先,灾难物理学除了在书中最后蓝蓝的父亲提议她为自己写的故...
評分不知道是我的阅读能力与品位问题,还是本书翻译问题(英文原版貌似本身就写得够叫人抓狂,这翻译再这么一整,噩梦!),这本书对我而言真的是灾难。 不用扎实的叙事手法,而是每3,4行就满天星空的引经据典, 从科普《常见昆虫》的桥段,一会又跑到纳鲁达的《二十四首情诗和...
評分我把它当作一个美丽的故事来阅读。美国盛行阴谋论——这其实是勇气的十足表现形式。很难在其他地方找到这种不折不扣的生命力,这是年轻化的、聪明的质地,不是海明威的历尽沧桑。 怀念学院的气息,写一篇与论文结合的小说,那就用一系列注释做形容词。正在想念相隔遥远时空的学...
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