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Albert Einstein's brain floats in formaldehyde in a Tupperware® bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is Michael Paterniti, a young journalist from Maine. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955--and 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. With the brain as both cargo and talisman, Paterniti perceives every motel, truck-stop diner, and roadside attraction as a weigh station for the American dream in the wake of the scientist's mind-blowing legacy. Finally, inspired by the man who gave a skeptical world a glimpse of its cosmic origins, this extraordinary writer weaves his own unified field theory of time, love, and the power to believe, once again, in eternity.
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. With the brain as both cargo and talisman, Paterniti perceives every motel, truck-stop diner, and roadside attraction as a weigh station for the American dream in the wake of the scientist's mind-blowing legacy. Finally, inspired by the man who gave a skeptical world a glimpse of its cosmic origins, this extraordinary writer weaves his own unified field theory of time, love, and the power to believe, once again, in eternity.
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- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Professionals & Academics >> Scientists
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Professionals & Academics >> Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Biographies & Memoirs >> People, A-Z >> ( E ) >> Einstein, Albert
- Travel >> General >> Essays & Travelogues
- Travel >> United States >> Regions >> General
- Travel >> United States >> States >> Kansas
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Maria B. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I love any book where the main character drives across the country. Add Albert Einstein's brain to the story and it's fascinating. I finished it in less than a day.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
By reading the blurb on the jacket of this book I thought it would be somewhat humourous, and I wanted a light read. Unfortunaly it was not the humourous piece I thought it would be. I found myself continually waiting for the story to begin with this book, and in the end I never finished the book. But I did have a toddler and infant in the house, so maybe I needed someting lighter to read.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
The true story of a road trip almost beyond belief - from the East Coast to the West Coast with the brain of Einstein himself, pickled in formaldehyde and riding in Tupperware, and with the doctor who had removed it during Einstein's autopsy. A fascinating book, easy to read, with interesting tidbits of information about Einstein's life and history along the way. The road trip itself is worth the ride...
Chris B. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
COOKIEJAR! I continually said that with disbelief while reading this book. Dr. Thomas Harvey performed the autopsy of Albert Einstein and removed his brain. He kept it with the purpose of studying it. He kept it in a cookie jar. That tidbit of information stuck with me throughout the book and the thought of Einsteins brain floating around in a cookie jar sent me into a tizzy every time it was mentioned. The book was good though. Part biography of Einstein but more a recount of the road trip the author and Dr. Harvey took. Some portions of the book were tedious for me. For instance I didn't really care that the author was worried about his relationship with his girlfriend. Had the book been about that it could have been interesting but really when your talking about Einstein's brain floating around in a cookie jar some guys relationship with his girlfriend is trivial. It gets a 3 out of 5.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
a very good read, interesting and weird
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Mary S. (Wasn't as good as I thought it would be-it dragged;very long and drawn out.
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