The Adventures of Young Roby and Other Accounts

The "Adventures of Young Roby and Other Accounts" is a memoir that consists of mostly light-hearted tales and sketches from the author's youth growing up on a farm in the small European country of Luxembourg, in the post World War II era (i.e. the nineteen-forties to –sixties). The memoir continues through the author's student days in Germany and Switzerland. The narrative is broken up into a description of the atmosphere and environment that the author grew up in, his adventures during his early years on the farm (ages 2-12), stories and anecdotes from his teenage years (ages 12-19) and accounts from his twenties, as a university student in Heidelberg and Zurich. The story-telling ends with the author's arrival at Rockefeller University in New York City in 1972, and the start of his academic career in the US.