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The Scientists: A Family Romance (2012)

by Marco Roth(Favorite Author)

3.09 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0374210284 (ISBN13: 9780374210281)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: I had a hard time really getting into this book and I had to really push myself to finish it. maybe because I'm female or because I'm not from an upper-class New York family or because my father is still alive or... I don't know, but reading this felt like watching someone having a nervous breakdown and not being able to do anything to help. This book made me feel anxious every time I picked it up, which is why it took me a lot longer than usual to finish it.
review 2: I wanted to like this book. I really did. And although Roth is a good writer and I find him sympathetic, I found myself wondering WHY I was continuing to read this book. Roth's mother and father were both sort of shadowy figures and I found myself wondering who they really were. It was as if ... moreRoth was ambivalent about writing this sort of memoir - one that exposes and reveals his deepest family secrets. But, if one chooses to do so, one can't be timid or elusive about it. I felt like I learned more about his famous aunt, Anne Roiphe, than I did about his mother and father. Perhaps this was because he wasn't afraid of hurting her. Anyway, this was a slow read that I felt that I had to force myself to finish. And, at the end, there was no redemption, no growth or no real change. less

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