Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales - Hardcover

Sacks, Oliver

 
9781509821792: Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales
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ISBN 10: 1509821791 ISBN 13: 9781509821792
Verlag: Picador, 2019

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From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Oliver Sacks’s broad range of interests – from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer’s.

Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is beloved by readers for his neurological case histories and his fascination and familiarity with human behavior at its most unexpected and unfamiliar. Everything in Its Place is a celebration of Sacks’s myriad interests.

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Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's 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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'He had a unique literary gift. A clinician of compassion, he could also – in a deft, often passionate portrait – familiarise us with human peculiarities and the kinds of talents and courage they can give rise to.' Guardian
‘Wonder, passion and gratitude never seemed to flag in Sacks’s life; everything he wrote was lit with it. But it was his openness to new ideas and experiences, and his vision of change as the most human of biological processes that synthesized all of his work – Nicole Krauss, New York Times Book Review
‘Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator’ Observer

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509821791
ISBN 13 
9781509821792
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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