Sentences with phrase «calamity physics»

After the soaring critical and commercial success of her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it took Marisha Pessl quite a while to settle into the creation of her moody, boldly ambitious new novel Night Film.

«Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of «Special Topics in Calamity Physics» and «Night Film.»»

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Reviews of Special Topics in Calamity Physics have been mixed - USA reviews (where it was first published) are generally positive; reviews from Britain (where it was published a few months later) are generally more muted.

Comment: As you probably know, Pessl structured Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her first novel, around the syllabus of a Great Works of Literature class - the sort of course that a prestigious 4 - year college might offer.

At the end of the day, Special Topics in Calamity Physics is worth reading if only to admire the audacity of a first time novelist creating something new from such a well - trod theme (the coming - of - age in a prep school novel in the form of a memoir) and, on the whole, pulling it off with style.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi.

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.

From the book jacket: 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.

Okay, I loved Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics and couldn't wait for her next book to come out.

Find out more about Marisha Pessl's works, including the bestselling novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film.

Enter a realm where fears are physical and memories come alive in this absorbing psychological suspense thriller with a twist, from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of «Special Topics in Calamity Physics» and «Night Film.»

- O Magazine «Hysterical and moving, The Year of the Gadfly fuses Special Topics in Calamity Physics with Portnoy's Complaint for girls.

If you're a Marisha Pessl fan (Special Topics in Calamity Physics), here's our Salon@615 talk at Nashville's Main library about her new novel, Night Film.

After the soaring critical and commercial success of her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, it took Marisha Pessl quite a while to settle into the creation of her moody, boldly ambitious new novel Night Film.No, it wasn't anxiety about the so - called sophomore jinx, Pessl says during a call to her writing studio.

Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

MARISHA PESSL Night Film (Random House, August) OK, we know — Pessl's been watched before, when her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, became the talk of 2006 and went on to sell nearly 200,000 copies in hardcover.

Pessl's debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, became the talk of 2006 and went on to sell nearly 200,000 copies in hardcover.

When the then -25-year-old Cline signed a three - book contract for $ 2 million + in 2014, the news was met with a level of skepticism and resentment not seen since the announcement of the multi-million-dollar deal for Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

A few immediately come to mind: Michael Chabon (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was Chabon's honors thesis and published when he was 25); Marisha Pessl (Special Topics in Calamity Physics debuted when Pessl was 28; Night Film is forthcoming in 2010); and Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated was drawn from Foer's senior thesis and published when he was 25).

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is your first novel.

I think every writer has another novelist who's bewitched them, and in my case (it will come as no surprise, as his giant shadow drifts in and out of Calamity Physics), it's Nabokov.

In this vein, the book titles of Calamity Physics take on new and often humorous connotations informed by the events of each chapter yet remain rooted in their grand tradition as works of the Canon.

Marisha Pessl discusses her first novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which is structured around the syllabus of a Great Works of Literature class, and what inspired her to write it.

The author, whose 2007 debut, Special Topics In Calamity Physics was structured around a syllabus for a college literature course, switches focus to a different art form in a literary thriller about a reclusive movie director.

Marisha Pessl is the author of Night Film and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which won the John Sargent Sr..

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I enjoyed Shulock's ode to precocious young narrators defined by «idiosyncratic voices, unapologetic intelligence and bold curiosity» (à la Blue van Meer in Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics — which, as a side note, was probably my favorite book of 2006).

Lighter, more comic versions of this can be found in novels like Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys or Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, where bored students and academics wreck their lives or the lives of those around them in search of moments of excitement.

Not exact matches

Criterion's arcade racing series offered a pure shot of adrenaline - its sense of speed and movement was pretty much unparalleled, and its increasingly elaborate damage physics meant that, when you inevitably crashed, the resulting spectacle almost made the calamity worthwhile.