DRIVING MR. ALBERT驱动阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦先生Michael Paterniti著 英文原版

　　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.

　　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.

　　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
　　– Review