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    Reif Larsen

    The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Penguin Press) Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Sep 3, 2009 • 28m Listen

    The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

    (Penguin Press)

    Reif Larsen's little T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything, so the novel reads like an instruction manual for seeing the world afresh. But what of Larsen, the young novelist? Is he an obsessive too?

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      The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (Penguin Press) Reif Larsen's T. S. Spivet, twelve-year-old genius cartographer, compulsively maps everything...

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