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Sacks, Oliver W.
On the move
[Book] :
A memoir /
by Oliver Sacks.
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
397 pages, 32 un-numbered pages of plates :
illustrations (some color) ;
22 cm.
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"This is a Borzoi book.".
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.
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Sacks, Oliver W.
Sacks, Oliver W.
Neurologists
England
Biography.
Neurologists
United States
Biography.
Neurologists.
England.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Biography.