9780451492913 - Letters von Sacks, Oliver W. (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Hardcover. Zustand: As new. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As new. First Edition. The letters begin with Sacks arrival in America as a young man, eager to establish himself away from the confines of postwar England, and show us his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer's voice; his weight-lifting, motorcycle-riding years and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his bookAwakenings; his growing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain; his many friendships and exchanges with writers, artists, and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life. Like new, first printing. 6½" - 9½". book.