East from Montana with whimsy.(COMMENTARY)(BOOK REVIEW)(Column)

The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | August 20, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Emily Colette Wilkinson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Upon first opening Reif Larsen's illustrated novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, you may be tempted to suspect that the novel's hero and narrator, the child prodigy Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet, and his selected works will be (like his name) precious, affectedly quaint - in a word, twee. If you've heard the hype about this novel - namely, that Penguin gave Mr. Larsen a $1 million advance for it, you may have developed (as this reviewer did) expectations so impossibly high that disappointment seems ...

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