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The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth (Hardcover, 2013)

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'Marco Roth's book about his father is a farewell to a bygone culture - polygot, intellectual, Europhile, psychoanalytic - and simultaneously a renewal of that culture. It's moving, tough-minded, and distinctive, a memoir the likes of which nobody else could write.' Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician - from the time he could get his toddler tongue to pronounce a word like 'deoxyribonucleic acid' or recite a French poem - Marco Roth was able to share his parents' New York, a world centered around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and dinner discussions of the latest advances in medicine. That world ended when his father began to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s. What this family would not talk about for years came to dominate the lives of its surviving members, often in unexpected ways. The Scientists is a story of how we first learn from our parents and how we then learn to see them as separate individuals; it's a story of how preciousness can slow us down when it comes to understanding our desires and other people's. A memoir of parents and children in the tradition of Edmund Gosse, Henry Adams and J. R. Ackerley, The Scientists grapples with a troubled and emotional inheritance, in a style that is both elegiac and defiant.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Union Books
ISBN-13
9781908526199
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138831610

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Scientists: a Family Romance
Author
Marco Roth
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Memorials
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
208 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Marco Roth
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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