A Darkly Funny 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 Cinéaste To Boot. In Her Final Year Of High School At The élite (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.--from Publisher Description. Othello / William Shakespeare -- A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man / James Joyce -- Withering Heights / Emily Brontë -- The House Of The Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Woman In White / Wilkie Collins -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos De Laclos -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw -- The Mysterious Affair At Styles / Agatha Christie -- Moby Dick / Herman Melville -- A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway -- Women In Love / D.h. Lawrence -- The Housebreaker Of Shady Hill / John Cheever -- Sweet Bird Of Youth / Tennessee Williams -- Laughter In The Dark / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Sleeping Beauty And Of Fairy Tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-couch -- A Room With A View / E.m. Forster -- Howl And Other Poems / Allen Ginsberg -- The Taming Of The Shrew / William Shakespeare -- Deliverance / James Dickey -- Heart Of Darkness / Joseph Conrad -- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey -- One Hundred Years Of Solitude / Gabriel García Márquez -- Bleak House / Charles Dickens -- The Big Sheep / Raymond Chandler -- Justine / Marquis De Sade -- Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto De Via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda -- Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe -- The Nocturnal Conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey -- Che Guevara Talks To Young People / Ernesto Guevara De La Serna -- Good Country People / Flannery O'connor -- The Trial / Franz Kafka -- Paradise Lost / John Milton -- The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Metamorphoses / Ovid. Marisha Pessl.

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