Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship With Oliver Sacks - Hardcover

Barry, Susan R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1891011308 ISBN 13: 9781891011306

Verlag: Experiment, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

MusicophiliaThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.New YorkerTheir shared passions—from classical music to cuttlefish, brain plasticity to bioluminescent plankton—spark a friendship that buoys both of them through life’s crests and falls: as Sue becomes an author in her own right, as she supports her father in his decline, and as Oliver becomes a patient himself—battling cancer that, in a painful twist, robs him of his own vision.Dear Oliver

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Susan R. Barry is a professor emerita of neuroscience and behavior at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Fixing My Gaze, named a best book of the year by Amazon and Library Journal, and Coming to Our Senses. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Big Think, and on Science Friday, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition. She lives in Massachusetts.

Oliver Sacks was a physician, a bestselling author, and a professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine." As an author, he is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and An Anthropologist on Mars. Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

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• Verlag: Experiment
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1891011308
• ISBN 13: 9781891011306
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259
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