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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

A moving and intimate portrait of a figure who has expanded our understanding of the universe ... Evocative ... Barss elegantly conveys the thrill of discovery ... This biography depicts Sir Roger in multiple dimensions; only a writer as psychologically astute as Barss could show us an impossible man in full.
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Absorbing ... Many of the ideas are so arcane, and the descriptions so brief, that only the most careful of readers will come away feeling enlightened. The focus of The Impossible Man is the life of an extraordinary mind, not its products.
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The book is essentially about a human caught between clock time and time in the fourth dimension ... A primer to the Penrose understanding of the cosmos, and a remarkable study of the lengths one man has gone to avoid understanding himself.
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