An Audience for Einstein (2006 EPPIE Award Winner)

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Professor Percival Marlowe is a brilliant, elderly astrophysicist who'sdying, his greatest achievement still unfinished and now beyond hisdiminished means. Doctor Carl Dorning, a neurosurgeon, finally discovers asecret method of transplanting memories from one person to another, thanksto Marlowe's millions. Miguel Sanchez, a homeless boy, agrees to become therecipient of Marlowe's knowledge and personality in this unorthodoxexperiment, enticed by Dorning's promises of intelligence, wealth andrespect, but dangerously unaware that his own identity will be lost forever.What results is a seesaw battle for control of Miguel's body, as Marlowelearns to his dismay what his lifetime of arrogance and conceit has earnedhim. And when Marlowe stumbles upon the shocking procedure Dorning used indesperation to succeed, the professor does what he must to defeat Dorningand redeem himself at last.