Night Film : a Novel
Publishers Weekly Seven years after Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Pessl returns with a novel as twisted and intelligent as that lauded debut. Again, the story centers on a father-daughter relationship, but this time the sinister element is front and center, beginning with the daughter’s death. The “night films†of Stanislas Cordova have a cult […]
Special Topics In Calamity Physics
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Pessl's stunning debut is an elaborate construction modeled after the syllabus of a college literature course?36 chapters are named after everything from Othello to Paradise Lost to The Big Sleep?that culminates with a final exam. It comes as no surprise, then, that teen narrator Blue Van Meer, the daughter of […]