Spivet : readers are going to love it as much as I did, and few if any will have experienced anything like it. Bookslut Two predictions about The Selected Works of T.S. Bookpage Reif Larsen has kicked off his literary career with a stunning and beautiful book.Larsen managed to write one of the most highly original novels of the year. The book hardly seems able to stay between its covers, bulging as it is with so many astonishments, so many crossings of fictional lines. Book Forum The novel is a cabinet of wonders, an odyssey of self-discovery, a family romance, a symphony of topography, geology and American history. On top of that, he's a right laugh, which never hurts. with his own creditable identity, making him every bit as doubting and overwhelmed as he is precocious and indomitablehe's a little bundle of paradoxes, with the proper literary DNA of any well-formed character. The Stranger Inventing a preternaturally bright child is always tricky, but Larsen imbues T. The Oregonian Spivet's narration is undeniably funny not since Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has a precocious young boy carried a novel so ably. Elle Larsen's instincts are extraordinary. Newsday Brimming with idiosyncrasies.endearing and triumphantly original. This is a book to be read slowly, savored for its digressions and offbeat characters. Boston Globe n ambitious and smart first novel.

The Miami Herald A mightily impressive debut, a wistful glimpse at that moment when adulthood threatens those last, vital days of youth. Vanity Fair As much a work of art as it is a warm, compelling story of family ties, science and the importance of understanding the worldand the human heart. Zusatztext is like nothing you've ever picked upIllustrated with witty marginalia (supposedly produced by its protagonist), it is also steeped in poignancy, humor, and wisdom. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world

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