The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet

Larsen, Reif

ISBN 10: 0670069752 / ISBN 13: 9780670069750

Published by Hamish Hamilton, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2009

About this Item

The book is inscribed and signed by the author on the full title page. The book is near fine with very slight edge wear in a near fine dust jacket with very slight edge wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670069752
• ISBN 13: 9780670069750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

When 12-year-old genius map-maker T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian, life as normal—if you consider mapping dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins. During his journey, T.S. discovers a secret family history in his luggage. And the farther he travels, the greater he understands home. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital and is welcomed into science's inner circle only to find that fame seems to overshadow ideas. T.S. struggles to find a way to map the delicate lessons learned about family and self, and questions whether there is a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, and loneliness in this exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming, and unbearably poignant debut novel.

About the Author

Reif Larsen’s first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was aNew York Times bestseller and is currently being published in twenty-nine countries. The novel was a 2010 Montana Honor Book, a Border’s Original voices Finalist, and IndieBound Award Finalist and was shortlisted for theGuardian First Book award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The novel is being adapted for the screen by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (director ofAmélie).He studied at Brown University, and has taught at Columbia University, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He is also a filmmaker and has made documentaries in the U.S., the U.K., and sub-Saharan Africa. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.