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...years, “Special Topics” minimizes the ‘to be or not to be’ virgin dilemmas and queen bee versus wannabe showdowns. While that approach worked for the movie “Mean Girls,” the intellectually inclined will relish Pessl??s knack for language, unconventional arrangement, and substantial academic references...
According to a grumbling few, Marisha Pessl??s tangled debut novel “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” does not deserve to be published. Certain critics and blogsters credit the unusually pretty author—and her jacket photo—for capturing publisher Viking’s attention...
Naturally, Harvard figures prominently into the plot. Take pride in Pessl??s characterization, which includes descriptions of brainiacs, rabble rousers, pre-med roommates named Soon-Jin, and pretentious Teaching Fellows who gesture “as if holding an invisible parasol, pinky outward” alike...
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