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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl
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  • Aug 3, 2006, 528 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Apr 2007, 528 pages
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In person Marisha is described as straightforward and unpretentious". A close friend writes that "she's not this person who speaks above peoples' heads". Her husband describes her as "perhaps the most driven person, the most goal-orientated person, when it came to her novel, that I have ever met."

When asked why she chose to write a mystery she replies, "I love the circuitous routes a character has to take to find the truth, and surprise endings."

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This "beyond the book article" relates to Special Topics in Calamity Physics. It originally ran in September 2006 and has been updated for the April 2007 paperback edition. Go to magazine.

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