marisha Pessl's Mesmerizing Debut Has Critics Raving And Heralds The Arrival Of A Vibrant New Voice In American Fiction. At The Center Of This Cracking Good Read Is Clever, Deadpan Blue Van Meer, Who Has A Head Full Of Literary, Philosophical, Scientific, And Cinematic Knowledge. But She Could Use Some Friends. Upon Entering The Elite St. Gallway School, She Finds Some - A Clique Of Eccentrics Known As The Bluebloods. One Drowning And One Hanging Later, Blue Finds Herself Puzzling Out A Byzantine Murder Mystery. Nabokov Meets Donna Tartt (then Invites The Rest Of The Western Canon To The Party) In This Novel - With Visual Aids Drawn By The Author - That Has Won Over Readers Of All Ages.
the New York Times Book Review
this Skylarking Book Will Leave Readers Salivating For More. The Joys Of This Shrewdly Playful Narrative Lie Not Only In The High-low Darts And Dives Of Pessl's Tricky Plotting, But In Her Prose, Which Floats And Runs As If By Instinct, Unpremeditated And Unerring.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Crime & Mystery
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Penguin Books
Author : Pessl, Marisha
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2007-04-24
Number Of Pages : 528
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0143112120
ISBN-13 : 9780143112129
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.3 in x 5.5 in x 8.4 in
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