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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
de Reif Larsen
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- Librería
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Peguin Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition with full and correct number line 13579108642, Book and Jacket are FINE, never read and flawless, original $27.95 price intact on front inner flap of jacket. Heavily illustrated, T.S. Spivet is a young very bright cartogrpaher that produces meticolous maps and charts as he travels on behalf of the Smithsonian. An ultra clean and most presentable copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000623
- Título
- The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
- Autor
- Reif Larsen
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- The Peguin Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
- Palabras clave
- Cartography
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Pacific Coast Books
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Sobre Pacific Coast Books
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