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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
by Larsen, Reif
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594202176
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202179
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. A most handsome, uniquely designed book, book design and typography by Ben Gibson, Illustrations by Ben Gibso, Reif Larsen, Martie Holmer. Brown cloth over spine with copper metallic titles amd decoration, cream boards with copper metallic sparrow on front. Upper corners gently bumped, else Fine. Internals as new. Drawings, sketches, maps, lists in margins of nearly every page and also in-text b/w drawings. Jacket design with illustration of a sparrow skeleton by Jeff Middleton. Reif Larsen's debut novel features a 12 year-old genius cartographer from Divide, Montana, who wins a prestigious award from the Smithsonian and heads to Washington, DC, leaving before dawn to hop a freight train east. His exploits, adventures, exploring a new world are a delight to read. And in his luggage he finds a secret family history that brings him closer to home, telling him the story of his ancestors and their long-ago journey west. And so T.S.'s journey also deals with family, heartbreak, lonliness and love, as he learns about the world about him. The images illustrate the narrative on each page. 374 pages. 8 x 9.5 inches. 2009, Penguin Press, New York.
Synopsis
Discover The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet for iPad. A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-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 family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of "rims," and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025480
- Title
- The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
- Author
- Larsen, Reif
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594202176
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202179
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- CARTOGRAPHY MAP MAKING MONTANA TRAVEL SPARROWS BEETLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction. Adventure;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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