Awakenings [Lingua inglese] - Brossura

Sacks, Oliver

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ISBN 10: 0330523678 ISBN 13: 9780330523677

Casa editrice: Pan, 2012

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 by Oliver Sacks 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.

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Recensione:

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)

It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on. (Doris Lessing)

Descrizione del libro:

The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

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• Editore: Pan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0330523678
• ISBN 13: 9780330523677
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448