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On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.

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Record Number 729738
ISBN 9781447264057 (paperback)
9781447264040 (hardback)
Author Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. author.
Title On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.
Publisher/Date London Picador, 2015.
©2015.
Pagination etc. 397 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents note Includes index.
On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home.
Summary Note Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; 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--Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick--who influenced him.
Subject - Name Sacks, Oliver, -- 1933-2015
Subject Neurologists -- England -- Biography
Neurologists -- United States -- Biography
Autobiographies.
Shelf Location 616.8 SACK
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