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The scientists : a family romance (edition 2012)

by Marco Roth

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Title:The scientists : a family romance
Authors:Marco Roth
Info:New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012.
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Marco Roth writes in a beautifully natural manner that is absent of any sentimentality or blame. Though he certainly has an agenda in writing this book it never feels pressed or vengeful. Roth's search is only for the truth and all the ramifications that come with finding it even within his own personality and how he proceeds daily in the matters of owning and living his personal life. But there is much more to my thinking about this memoir and you can read about it here:

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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 a pronounce a word like “De-oxy ribonucleic 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 precociousness 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.

 

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With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician, Marco Roth shares 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.… (more)

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