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T.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a tight-lipped cowboy and his mother is a scientist who ...Show synopsisT.S. Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a tight-lipped 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 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.Hide synopsis
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This novel enriches the form with the addtion of marginalia which enhances the characterization of young T.S. Spivet. No need to study the notes and drawings, just read them where indicated by arrows from the text and little by little Spivet's mind is revealed as that of a precocious boy with a ...
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This is a fascinating novel about a twelve year old who is far beyond his peers academically, but still does not understand many of the aspects of the adult world he is plunged into through his work. His cartography work causes him to gain fame among gurus of the field and recognition from the ...
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The beginning of the book fascinated me, with its look at the inner workings of the mind of a child prodigy and his life on a western ranch. It is rich in detail and the way it hints at a troubled episode from the boy's recent past is tantalizing.
The tone of the book seems to change about midway ...
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