Arvid groaned, but I read the book, and this is the third time now.

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Arvid is wounded and childish, desperate for reassurance from his mother, anxiously competitive with his brothers, dead and alive.

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CNN's Arvid Ahlund contributed to this report.

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At the same time that Dr Kilby was demonstrating the first integrated circuit to his colleagues at Texas Instruments, Arvid Carlsson, a Swede, was carrying out the experiments that have won him a share in this year's medicine prize.

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When his mother decides to return for a few days to the place on the Danish coast where she grew up, Arvid follows her, seeking a quality of communication and commendation that he has clearly never received from either of his parents.

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