Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain - Hardcover

Paterniti, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385333005 ISBN 13: 9780385333009

Publisher: Dial Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Part travelogue, part memoir, this unique book follows an 84-year-old pathologist across the country as the country with Einstein's brain in Tupperware bowl filled with formaldehyde.

About this title

Review:

"Eccentric, implausible, hilarious, infuriating, and ultimately mesmerizing."
-- The Washington Post Book World

"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

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385333005
• ISBN 13: 9780385333009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211