Awakenings

Sacks, Oliver W.

ISBN 10: 1480530379 ISBN 13: 9781480530379

Casa editrice: Brilliance Audio, 2013

Riassunto

“Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book.” — A. Alvarez, The ObserverAwakenings — which inspired the major motion picture — is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, “awakening” effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations that went with their reintroduction to a changed world.“[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience.” — The Boston Globe“One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.” — The Washington Post“A masterpiece.” — W. H. Auden

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Brilliance Audio
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1480530379
• ISBN 13: 9781480530379
• Rilegatura: Audio CD