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T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent 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. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks.He is brilliant and the Smithsonian Institution agrees though when they award him a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old. So begins T.S.'s life-changing adventure travelling two thousand miles across America to reach the awards dinner the secret-society membership and the TV interviews that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange?
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Reif Larsen
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- 2010
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- Inglés
- Autores
- Reif Larsen
- Editorial
- Random House
- Publicado en
- 2010
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0099555190
- ISBN13
- 9780099555193
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Aventura, Narrativa juvenil, Familia, Ficción contemporánea, Ciencia, EE.UU., Muerte, Novelas sociales, Madurez, América, Pérdida, Viaje, Luto, Infancia, Dibujos, Cartas, Washington, Montana
- Primera publicación
- 2009
- Título original
- The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
- Calificación
- 3,9 de 5
- Descripción
- T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent 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. T.S. makes sense of it all by drawing beautiful meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks.He is brilliant and the Smithsonian Institution agrees though when they award him a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old. So begins T.S.'s life-changing adventure travelling two thousand miles across America to reach the awards dinner the secret-society membership and the TV interviews that beckon. But is this what he wants? Do maps and lists explain the world? And why are adults so strange?