Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain Paperback - 2001
by Michael Paterniti
Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti, next to him is the 84-year-old pathologist who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 and kept the brain as a souvenir. A road story with a cerebral twist.
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Albert Einstein was born in 1879, in Ulm, Germany, with a head shaped like a lopsided medicine ball.
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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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- Title Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
- Author Michael Paterniti
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dial Press, New York
- Date June 5, 2001
- ISBN 9780385333030 / 038533303X
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Heartland
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Kansas
- Library of Congress subjects Einstein, Albert, Brain - Dissection
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.41
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/15/2001, Page 80
- New York Times, 12/02/2001, Page 88
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