SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS

Book ID/图书代码： 12563005B01450

English Summary/英文概要： 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.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 玛丽莎的<灾难物理学的特别话题>是她的第一本小说,书中包含很多精彩的故事:有成年故事,有公路冒险,有名著调查,也有浪漫喜剧和神秘谋杀.本书用一个十九岁女孩 ‘蓝色’早熟而害羞的声音来叙述,每个章节都用一个名著来命名,为本书迂回曲折的情节提供了路标. 故事开始于女主角蓝色来到美国北卡罗莱纳州,随行的是她具有魅力的,对她呵护备至的父亲加雷斯. 加雷斯是一个大学教授, 在一系列的大学城中把他的女儿抚养长大. 蓝色是一个聪明,冷漠, 热爱电影而具有大量文学,政治,哲学和科学知识的女孩.在她迷恋蝴蝶的母亲神秘的死亡之后,蓝色和她的父亲登上了漫长的大学城旅程,他们从不在任何地方逗留超过一个学期的时间,这对蓝色的社交生活有很大的影响, 但当他们停靠在美国的STOCKTON之后,蓝色在她高中学习生涯中,结交了一群行为古怪的天才学生以及他们的头目,电影学习老师汉纳. 但当汉纳的一个朋友被溺死和接下来汉纳骇人听闻的死亡之后, 小说变成一个神秘的谋杀,伴随着非常精细的的密谋,蓝色试图用她锐利的直觉和文化知识来弄明白事情的真相.在看了最后一个章节对案情的揭示之后,读者会自发到故事的最初去找依此出现的微小线索.就象它里面的提到的吸引人的主要角色一样,这本小说包含了很多东西-它是一本真诚而特别的对于爱情,未来和身份地位的描述.

Awards/获奖情况：Marisha Pessl’s SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS was chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2006 (one of the five best fiction titles). NYT Ten Best Books: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061210tenbestbooks.html?em&ex=1165035600&en=14c8e9ac5454da9a&ei=5087%0A and it will appear in the Sunday Book Review December 10th. Of course, SPECIAL TOPICS was also chosen as one of the 100 most notable books of 2006 along with Jonathan Franzen’s THE DISCOMFORT ZONE (NYT 100 Most Notable Books: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html ), which will appear in this Sunday’s Book Review.

About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽莎自哥伦比亚大学毕业,出生于美国的北卡罗莱纳州.她现在住在纽约. 玛丽莎用三年的时间来写这本书,她查阅了大量百科全书,政治论文,数学,物理知识和大量的世界名著.当她还是一个在巴纳德学院学习的学生时,她就在非百老汇戏剧中演出,追求她对于视觉艺术的理想.她是从电影制片,戏剧影片和其他书籍中得到的灵感.
Marisha Pessl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University.

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