Albert Einstein Speaking R.J. Gadney

Name: Albert Einstein Speaking By R.J. Gadney
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Albert Einstein Speaking by R.J. Gadney

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The story of the world's most famous scientist as you've never read it before. 'A literary gem' Ian McEwan

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Albert Einstein Speaking by R.J. Gadney

Princeton. New Jersey.
14th March 1954

'Albert Einstein speaking.'
'Who?' asks the girl on the telephone.
'I'm sorry,' she says. 'I have the wrong number.'
'You have the right number,' Albert says.

From a wrong number to a friendship that would impact both their lives, Albert Einstein Speaking begins with the meeting of two very different minds - the world's most respected scientist and a schoolgirl from New Jersey. Riotous, charming and tender, R.J. Gadney's novel spans almost a century and shines a light on the man behind the myth.

Albert Einstein Speaking Reviews

Out of this well-documented life, R.J. Gadney has conjured, with an accomplished novelist's art, a strange and luminous fiction, a literary gem beautifully and cunningly poised between historical truth and the warmly imagined. Its finale is deeply affecting -- IAN McEWAN
An informative and unsettling portrait of a great man and his times * * Guardian * *
Enchanting . . . A model of its kind; concise, funny and vivid * * Times Literary Supplement * *
Engrossing . . . An intriguing addition to the canon of fictionalised biography . . . Impressive * * Evening Standard * *
Curious, engrossing . . . A blend of fiction and fact, written in the urgent present tense, it uses Einstein's life to look at the times he lived through, and vice versa * * iNews * *

About R.J. Gadney

R.J. Gadney was a writer, artist and academic. He was born in Cross Hills, Yorkshire in 1941. He studied English, Fine Art and Architecture at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1970 he became a part-time Tutor at the Royal College of Art and later became the youngest Pro-Rector in the history of the College. He lectured at both Oxford and Cambridge universities, Harvard, MIT, at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and at the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Moscow. He wrote several screenplays for television, wrote for the Spectator, the London Magazine and the Evening Standard and authored several crime and thriller novels. He died in May 2018.

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GOR009728223

ISBN 13

9781786890498

ISBN 10

1786890496

Title

Albert Einstein Speaking by R.J. Gadney

Author

R.J. Gadney

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Canongate Books

Year published

20190314

Number of pages

272

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