St. Martin's Press
August 2011
On Sale: August 16, 2011
Featuring: Clyde Tombaugh
432 pages ISBN: 0312573561 EAN: 9780312573560 Paperback Add to Wish List
A novel of ambition and obsession centered on the race to
discover Pluto in 1930, pitting an untrained Kansas farm boy
against the greatest minds of Harvard at the run-down Lowell
Observatory in Arizona In 1928, the boy who will discover
Pluto, Clyde Tombaugh, is on the family farm, grinding a
lens for his own telescope under the immense Kansas sky. In
Flagstaff, Arizona, the staff of Lowell Observatory is about
to resume the late Percival Lowell's interrupted search for
Planet X. Meanwhile, the immensely rich heir to a chemical
fortune has decided to go west to hunt for dinosaurs and in
Cambridge, Massachussetts, the most beautiful girl in
America is going slowly insane while her ex-heavyweight
champion boyfriend stands by helplessly, desperate to do
anything to keep her. Inspired by the true story of Tombaugh
and set in the last gin-soaked months of the flapper era,
Percival's Planet tells the story of the intertwining lives
of half a dozen dreamers, schemers, and madmen. Following
Tombaugh's unlikely path from son of a farmer to discoverer
of a planet, the novel touches on insanity, mathematics,
music, astrophysics, boxing, dinosaur hunting,
shipwrecks—and what happens when the greatest romance of
your life is also the source of your life's greatest sorrow.
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