![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() would already gain him easy entry to any of the finer Eastern universities, though he is only 12. Spivet - Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet, and isn’t there a Lemony Snicket quality to the name? - is our protagonist and narrator, the son of a Montana rancher whose C.V. Spivet,” a book in which each page seems a vitrine constructed to exhibit the author’s discursive, magpie imagination. Editors could still accommodate a degree of financial risk in their acquiring, and so it came to be that Reif Larsen, a 28-year-old graduate of Brown and Columbia, with his explorer’s name and brief history promoting a Botswanan marimba band, ignited the spending impulses of the publishing world, producing such a fire that he extracted a reported $1 million for his first novel, “The Selected Works of T. A relatively short time ago, short time ago, in what was to some that heavenly stretch predating the fall 2008 financial quarter, people spent money on things - executives on gilded office renovations uptown women on Restylane and luxury retail and publishers, occasionally, on fiction by the young and unknown. ![]()
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