![]() ![]() ![]() The author, Leonard Mlodinow, is in an almost unique position. In their place is a tender account, full of genuine affection, which doesn’t shy away from Hawking’s intense focus, self-centredness, unpredictability and the difficulties faced by his wives and carers. What is refreshing is the absence of the usual adulation of an exceptional mind and celebration of triumph over adversity. But this latest, highly enjoyable, book is different. A number of biographies already exist, and there is a memoir entitled, inevitably, My Brief History, as well as the biopic, The Theory of Everything, in which Hawking is played by Eddie Redmayne. W e all feel we know the story of Stephen Hawking: his undergraduate years at Oxford the shocking diagnosis of motor neurone disease when he was 21 and the slow decline of his physical body for half a century his two marriages his research into the nature of black holes that established him as one of the most brilliant scientists of his generation and of course the publication of A Brief History of Time, which turned him into an icon, the genius in the wheelchair. ![]()
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