Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385333030)

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.

Author: Michael Paterniti
ISBN-10: 038533303X
ISBN-13: 9780385333030
Publisher: Random House Group
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2001
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/15/2001 pg. 80
New York Times 06/17/2001 pg. 28
New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 88