Name: On the Move: A Life
SKU: 48149240
Price: 322.00 ZAR
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Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780804170932

Type

Physical Book

Author

Oliver Sacks

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2016

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.2x2.5 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9780804170932

Synopsis "On the Move: A Life "

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "wonderful memoir" (Los Angeles Times) about a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human. - "Intimate.... Brim[s] with life and affection." --The New York TimesWhen Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks writes about the passions that have driven his life--from motorcycles and weight lifting to neurology and poetry. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists--W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick--who have influenced his work.

Oliver Sacks

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Oliver Wolf Sacks, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, cited as Oliver Sacks, was a British neurologist and writer of Jewish origin, fond of chemistry and a popularizer of science, especially regarding his specialty.

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