On the move : a life
Sacks, Oliver (1933 - 2015)
On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks - First edition - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2015 - 397 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
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.
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.
English
9780385352543
Sacks, Oliver (1933 - 2015)
Neurologist---England----Biography
Neurologists---United States----Biography
92 SAC
On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks - First edition - New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2015 - 397 p. : illus. ; 22 cm
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.
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.
English
9780385352543
Sacks, Oliver (1933 - 2015)
Neurologist---England----Biography
Neurologists---United States----Biography
92 SAC
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