On the Move A Life

Sacks, Oliver

ISBN 10: 0385352549 / ISBN 13: 9780385352543

Editore: Knopf, 2015

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<p>When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: &ldquo;Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.&rdquo; It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, <i>On the Move</i> is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life.</p><p>With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions&mdash;weight lifting and swimming&mdash;also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists&mdash;Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick&mdash;who influenced him. <i>On the Move</i> is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer&mdash;and of the man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.</p>

Informazioni sugli autori: <p>Oliver Sacks is the author of twelve previous books, including <i>The Mind&rsquo;s Eye, Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,</i> and <i>Awakenings</i> (which inspired both the Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter). <i>The New York Times</i> has referred to Dr. Sacks as &ldquo;the poet laureate of medicine,&rdquo; and he is a frequent contributor to <i>The New Yorker</i> and <i>The</i> <i>New York Review of Books</i>. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.</p><p>www.oliversacks.com</p>

Oliver Sacks is the author of twelve previous books, including The Mind’s Eye, Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired both the Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter). The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as “the poet laureate of medicine,” and he is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City, where he is a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine.

www.oliversacks.com

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Titolo: On the Move A Life
Casa editrice: Knopf
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good