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The Scientists: A Family Romance,Used
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Product Description [Read by Michael Goldstrom]This is a frank, intelligent, and deeply moving debut memoir. 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 started to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s. What this family could 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 growing up quickly can slow us down when it comes to knowing about 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 intellectual and emotional inheritance in a style that is both elegiac and defiant. Review ''Marco Roth emerged from his privileged NYC childhood like one of Salinger's precocious Glass children, but Roth's family was ravaged by secrets, and from it he has written a gorgeous memoir no one will be able to put down psychologically adroit, precise, moving, one of the best memoirs I've read in years.'' Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author''This is the first intellectual autobiography that I've read by someone our age in the searching, nineteenthcentury tradition of Edmund Gosse or Henry Adams: the autobiography equally of a reader and of a son, grappling with an inheritance that is both intellectual and emotional an education for our times.'' Lorin Stein, editor, Paris Review''[A] powerfully forlorn debut memoir...Roth's work is a ferocious literary exercise in rage, despair, and artistic selfinvention.'' Publishers Weekly (starred review) ''Manages to recuperate for our time a certain kind of personal, idiosyncratic, private writing that moves at the speed of an actual very high intelligence. No one in our generation has written anything like this.'' Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Young Literary Men About the Author Marco Roth was raised amid the vanished liberal culture of Manhattan's Upper West Side. After studying comparative literature at Columbia and Yale, he helped found the magazine n+1 in 2004. Recipient of the 2011 Shattuck Prize for literary criticism, he lives in Philadelphia.
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