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Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375704055 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375704051 |
| Title | Awakenings |
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1999-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |