Marisha Pessl
MARISHA PESSL is the author of Night Film and Special Topics in Calamity Physics , her bestselling debut, which was awarded the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize) and selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review . She lives with her husband and two young children in New York City.
MARISHA PESSL is the author of Night Film and Special Topics in Calamity Physics , her bestselling debut, which was awarded the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize) and selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review . She lives with her husband and two young children in New York City. See less
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Surprising complexity
by PFHMD95, Sep 13, 2012
This novel, organized linearly (for the most part), but with homage to several other literary works, is simple genius. On the surface, it's a story about an unusual adolescence. In the next layer, ... Read More
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Not my fav
Well, I must say that in the beginning, I enjoyed the writer's style.....a lot of details and kinda funny. But, after pages and pages of it, I started to get frustrated. I wanted to know more hard ... Read More
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
A disappointment
by LizT, Jan 16, 2008
The ridiculous referencing of way too many things was the best thing about this book.
Once arriving in their chosen town for the year, the book quickly degenerated into a bad "The Secret History" ... Read More
