MARISHA PESSL Tuesday, August 29th // 7 pm - reading & booksigning at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco)
books Special Topics in Calamity Physics (hardcover, $23.95), the mesmerizing debut novel from Marisha Pessl, features a narrator as distinctive as Holden Caulfield and a plot as complex as a Hitchcock film. Structured around a Great Works of Literature class & containing visual aids (drawn by the author!), this new novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. This new novel, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction.
Marisha Pessl graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University. "Beneath the foam of this exuberant debut is a dark, strong drink." -Jonathan Franzen, Winner of the National Book Award and author of The Corrections
Author events are free and are sponsored by The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.
