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In 1928, the youngster who'll discover Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a lens for his own telescope under the huge Kansas sky. In Flagstaff, Az, the staff of Lowell Observatory is going to resume the later Percival Lowell's interrupted seek out Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical fortune has went west to hunt for dinosaurs, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the most amazing girl in the us is going gradually insane while her ex-heavyweight champion partner stands by helplessly, anxious to do anything to keep her.Inspired by the real report of Tombaugh and occur the last gin-soaked months of the flapper time, Percival's Entire world tells the story of the intertwining lives of half a dozen dreamers, schemers, and madmen. Following Tombaugh's unlikely path from son of an farmer to discoverer of an planet, the novel touches on insanity, mathematics, music, astrophysics, boxing, dinosaur hunting, shipwrecks - and what goes on when the greatest romance you will ever have is also the source of your life's most significant sorrow.
