Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti

Driving Mr. Albert by Michael Paterniti

A splendid peek into the weird side of American life. Driving Mr. Albert is a work of . uncommon intelligence. --Newsweek

One of the most fascinating and memorable road trips since Kerouac's On the Road. --The Denver Post

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.

Driving Mr. Albert is entertaining, absurd, real, deep and informative.in a world in which it seems that all the good ideas have been taken, it is singular. --The Boston Globe

Paterniti seems to have been favored by that happy little god of travel writers who sits on one shoulder and whispers.the perfect anecdotes, the perfect set pieces at the perfect moments. . It's a brain, in fact, that I'd be happy to travel with again. --The New York Times Book Review

Paterniti, Michael: - Michael Paterniti is the New York Times bestselling author of Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Harper's, Outside, Esquire, and GQ, where he works as a correspondent. Paterniti has been nominated eight times for the National Magazine Award and is the recipient of an NEA grant and two MacDowell Fellowships. He is the co-founder of a children's storytelling center (www.tellingroom.com) in Portland, Maine, where he lives with his wife and their three children.

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ISBN 13	9780385333009
ISBN 10	0385333005
Title	Driving Mr. Albert
Author	Michael Paterniti
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Dial Press
Year published	2000-07-11
Number of pages	211
Prizes	Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2001
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.