Author

Publication

2007-04-24 - Penguin (Non-Classics)

Language

English

Word Count

128,500 words, Guess

Page Count

514 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivespecialtopicsinc00mari
  • ISBN-100143112120
  • ISBN-139780143112129
  • Goodreads97473
  • LibraryThing776166
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  • Better World Books9780143112129
  • Open LibraryOL7362018M

Description

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.

First Sentence

Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.

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