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A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Dial Press
June 2001
On Sale: June 5, 2001
224 pages ISBN: 038533303X EAN: 9780385333030 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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