Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House GroupISBN-13:9780385333030ISBN-10:038533303XUPC:9780385333030Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Essays & Travelogues, Social Scientists & PsychologistsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCH3YQ4J98
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einstein's perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House GroupISBN-13:9780385333030ISBN-10:038533303XUPC:9780385333030Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, TravelBook Subcategory:Science & Technology, Essays & Travelogues, Social Scientists & PsychologistsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SCH3YQ4J98
Michael Paterniti won the 1998 National Magazine Award for his article "Driving Mr. Albert," which was first published in Harper's Magazine. A former executive editor of Outside, his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Details, and Esquire, where he is writer-at-large. He lives in Portland, Maine, with his wife and son.
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