{"product_id":"books-awakenings-dvd-by-robert-niro","title":"AWAKENINGS DVD","description":"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 Observer Awakenings -- 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","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420184203537,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/014381681925_00c129b4-a8b8-40f7-9128-f852fa8d4d28.jpg?v=1787575733","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-awakenings-dvd-by-robert-niro","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}