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The Genius in My Basement

by Alexander Masters · 2011

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Alexander Masters offers a humorous and intimate portrait of genius at its most ordinary and at its most blurred. He enters us into the extraordinary life of one of the would-be contenders - an everyday mastermind - and in doing so, reveals the cruel burdens, as well as the glorious rewards, of a life marked by brilliance.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thissciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisCambridgeCambridgeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 360 pages

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