{"product_id":"uncle-tungsten-book-oliver-sacks-9780375704048","title":"Uncle Tungsten","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time--a riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A rare gem.... Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Long before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAwakenings,\u003c\/i\u003e he was a small English boy fascinated by metals--also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, Sacks chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/i\u003e we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his \"Uncle Tungsten,\" whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes--in his own home laboratory. \u003ci\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/i\u003e is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49560763597073,"sku":"GOR002752663","price":6.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49562195165457,"sku":"CIN0375704043G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49763347792145,"sku":"CIN0375704043A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50226037063953,"sku":"CIN0375704043VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001875595537,"sku":"NIN9780375704048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":53020707848465,"sku":"CIN0375704043LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375704043.jpg?v=1751228975","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/uncle-tungsten-book-oliver-sacks-9780375704048","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}