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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

by Reif Larsen
$11.73
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Thryft
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet - Thryft
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2009)
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2009)
  • Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2010)
  • Montana Book Award Nominee (2009)
  • The Kitschies Nominee for Red Tentacle (Novel) (2009)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
  • LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

by Reif Larsen
$11.73
ISBN: 9781846552786
Authors: Reif Larsen
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Date of Publication: 2009-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Young Adult, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.87
(rated by 8525 readers)

Description

T.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent cowboy and his mother is a scientist who for the last twenty years has been looking for a mythical species of beetle. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog – Verywell – is going mad.It’s odd, but then families are. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks: maps of the countryside, maps of his family’s behaviour, maps of animal and plant life. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they telephone with news that he has won a major scientific prize they don’t suspect for a minute that he is twelve years old.So begins T.S.’s life-changing adventure, fleeing in the dead of night, riding freight trains two thousand miles across America – how else do 12-year-olds get to Washington D.C.? – to reach the awards dinner, the fame, the secret-society membership and the TV appearances that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange?The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is a story like no other: exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming and unbearably poignant. It is a journey through life’s mysteries great and small, and about how on earth a boy with a telescope, four compasses and a theodolite should set about solving them.
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