Vintage Sacks (Vintage Originals) - Softcover

Sacks, Oliver W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400033977 ISBN 13: 9781400033973

Verlag: Vintage Books, 2004

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A compelling compilation of writings by the neurologist-author of Awakenings includes "Uncle Tungsten," "Stinks and Bangs," and "Cannery Row" from Uncle Tungsten, as well as a selection of excerpts from Seeing Voices, Awakenings, The ISland of the Colorblind, and Migraine. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.

“It is Dr. Sacks’s gift that he has found a way to enlarge our experience and understanding of what the human is.” —The Wall Street Journal

Dubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by The New York Times, Oliver Sacks is a practicing neurologist and a mesmerizing storyteller. His empathetic accounts of his patients’s lives—and wrily observed narratives of his own—convey both the extreme borderlands of human experience and the miracles of ordinary seeing, speaking, hearing, thinking, and feeling.
Vintage Sacks includes the introduction and case study “Rose R.” from Awakenings (the book that inspired the Oscar-nominated movie), as well as “A Deaf World” from Seeing Voices; “The Visions of Hildegard” from Migraine; excerpts from “Island Hopping” and “Pingelap” from The Island of the Colorblind; “A Surgeon’s Life” from An Anthropologist on Mars; and two chapters from Sacks’s acclaimed memoir Uncle Tungsten.

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400033977
• ISBN 13: 9781400033973
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200