内容简介 · · · · · ·
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-...
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.
Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Reif Larsen's first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into twenty-seven languages. A Montana Honor book, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet was a finalist for the IndieBound Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was released as a film in France and t...
Reif Larsen's first novel, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into twenty-seven languages. A Montana Honor book, The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet was a finalist for the IndieBound Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was released as a film in France and the United States.
The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel的书评 · · · · · · ( 全部 4 条 )
对于读者,这更像是一场思维的冒险
一本书被阅读,但不会被遗忘……
这篇书评可能有关键情节透露
也许促使继续读下去的只是封皮上“地球观察书、一本稀奇古怪的小说”这类字眼,让人的好奇心同主观感受去作斗争,我是这样的,但中途,却又改变了这样的想法。 T.S.斯比维特是个天才少年,我们读过很多天才少年的故事,也读过很多西部冒险的故事,两者结合使天才更加成为天才或... (展开)> 更多书评 4篇
论坛 · · · · · ·
在这本书的论坛里发言这本书的其他版本 · · · · · · ( 全部12 )
-
山东文艺出版社 (2013)8.5分 82人读过
-
每满100减50,满额送杯垫
-
人民文学出版社 (2017)7.0分 14人读过
-
Penguin Group USA (5/5/2009)暂无评分 4人读过
-
愛米粒 (2013)暂无评分 2人读过
谁读这本书? · · · · · ·
二手市场
· · · · · ·
- 在豆瓣转让 有5人想读,手里有一本闲着?
订阅关于The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel的评论:
feed: rss 2.0
1 有用 pluskid 2019-08-06 10:42:59
在书店看到的,排版非常精美(Penguin Books 的版本),每一页的精美插图、边注的位置都是专门排布过的,简直爱不释手。一路看下来,故事也非常有趣,讲一个制图少年的一段冒险之旅,结局稍微有点仓促,不过我觉得这本书的重点大概不在于结局,甚至不在于这段冒险的历程,最有趣的部分倒是在于从一个十二岁少年(并且是一个很 nerdy 的十二岁少年)的视角和思维看各种事物,心里暖暖的,仿佛又回到了童年哈哈... 在书店看到的,排版非常精美(Penguin Books 的版本),每一页的精美插图、边注的位置都是专门排布过的,简直爱不释手。一路看下来,故事也非常有趣,讲一个制图少年的一段冒险之旅,结局稍微有点仓促,不过我觉得这本书的重点大概不在于结局,甚至不在于这段冒险的历程,最有趣的部分倒是在于从一个十二岁少年(并且是一个很 nerdy 的十二岁少年)的视角和思维看各种事物,心里暖暖的,仿佛又回到了童年哈哈。 总结一下我和 spivet 的几个共同点:1. 早餐总是吃 honey nut cheerios;2. 旅行途中喜欢用麦当劳充饥。3. 中间 spivet 阅读了很长一段关于他的先祖 Emma 的故事,看得我有点无聊,然后书里 spivet 到后面也看得无聊,开始对“无聊”的种类进行总结。 (展开)
1 有用 pluskid 2019-08-06 10:42:59
在书店看到的,排版非常精美(Penguin Books 的版本),每一页的精美插图、边注的位置都是专门排布过的,简直爱不释手。一路看下来,故事也非常有趣,讲一个制图少年的一段冒险之旅,结局稍微有点仓促,不过我觉得这本书的重点大概不在于结局,甚至不在于这段冒险的历程,最有趣的部分倒是在于从一个十二岁少年(并且是一个很 nerdy 的十二岁少年)的视角和思维看各种事物,心里暖暖的,仿佛又回到了童年哈哈... 在书店看到的,排版非常精美(Penguin Books 的版本),每一页的精美插图、边注的位置都是专门排布过的,简直爱不释手。一路看下来,故事也非常有趣,讲一个制图少年的一段冒险之旅,结局稍微有点仓促,不过我觉得这本书的重点大概不在于结局,甚至不在于这段冒险的历程,最有趣的部分倒是在于从一个十二岁少年(并且是一个很 nerdy 的十二岁少年)的视角和思维看各种事物,心里暖暖的,仿佛又回到了童年哈哈。 总结一下我和 spivet 的几个共同点:1. 早餐总是吃 honey nut cheerios;2. 旅行途中喜欢用麦当劳充饥。3. 中间 spivet 阅读了很长一段关于他的先祖 Emma 的故事,看得我有点无聊,然后书里 spivet 到后面也看得无聊,开始对“无聊”的种类进行总结。 (展开)