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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

A boundary-leaping debut tracing a gifted young map maker's attempt to understand the ways of the world.

When 12-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal --- if you consider mapping dinner table conversations normal --- is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T. S. from his family home just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls.

There are some answers here on the road from Divide, and some new questions, too. How does one map the delicate lessons learned about family, or communicate the ebbs and flows of heartbreak, loneliness and love?

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
by Reif Larsen

  • Publication Date: April 27, 2010
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • ISBN-10: 0143117351
  • ISBN-13: 9780143117353