Awakenings - Brossura

Sacks, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 0330320912 ISBN 13: 9780330320917

Casa editrice: Picador, 2010

Riassunto

`The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber. `A brilliant and humane book' Observer `Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius' Washington Post

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

‘A masterpiece’ W. H. Auden

L'autore:

Oliver Sacks was educated in London, Oxford, California and New York. He is a professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0330320912
• ISBN 13: 9780330320917
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 408