Spivet is a 12-year-old genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. 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. Spivet is a story like no other: exhilarating, funny, endlessly charming and unbearably poignant. 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. 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. 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. 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. His brother has gone, his sister seems normal but might not be, and his dog Verywell is going mad. 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.
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