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By (author): Oliver Sacks

'Here is the unedited Oliver Sacksstruggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other' Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age who describes himself in these pages as a philosophical physician and an astronomer of the inward wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even statesmen: Francis Crick, Antonio Damasio, Jane Goodall, W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Stephen Jay Gould, Björk, and his first cousin, Abba Eban. But many of the most eloquent letters in this collection are addressed to the ordinary people who wrote to him with their odd symptoms and questions, to whom he responds with a sense of generosity and wonder.

With some correspondents, Sacks shares his struggle for recognition and acceptance both as a physician and as a gay man, providing intimate accounts as well of his passions for competitive weightlifting, motorcycles, botany, and music. With others, he chronicles his penchant for testing the boundaries of authority, the discovery of his writers voice, and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book Awakenings.

His descriptions of travels as a young man and the extraordinary people he encounters can be lyrical, ferocious, penetrating and hilarious. Many of his musings include the first detailed sketches of an essay forming in his mind, or miniature case histories rivalling those in his beloved essay collections.

Sensitively selected and introduced by Kate Edgar, Sackss longtime editor, the letters trace the arc of a remarkable life and reveal an often surprising portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of his own brain and mind.

'In addition to possessing the technical skills of a twentieth-century doctor, [Sacks] sees the human condition like a philosopher-poet' New York Times

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 07 Nov 2024

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Nov 2024
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781509821860

About Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queens College Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Franciscos Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books including The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Musicophilia and Hallucinations about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as the poet laureate of medicine and over the years he received many awards including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation the National Science Foundation the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008 he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir On the Move was published shortly before his death in August 2015.

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