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Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age – who describes
himself in these pages as a ‘philosophical physician’ and an
‘astronomer of the inward’ – wrote to an eclectic array of family
and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even
statesmen: Francis Crick, Antonio Damasio, Jane Goodall, W. H.
Auden, Susan Sontag, Stephen Jay Gould, Bjrk, and his first cousin,
Abba Eban. But many of the most eloquent letters in this collection
are addressed to the ordinary people who wrote to him with their
odd symptoms and questions, to whom he responds with a sense of
generosity and wonder.With some correspondents, Sacks shares his
struggle for recognition and acceptance both as a physician and as
a gay man, providing intimate accounts as well of his passions for
competitive weightlifting, motorcycles, botany, and music. With
others, he chronicles his penchant for testing the boundaries of
authority, the discovery of his writer’s voice, and his explosive
seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book
Awakenings.His descriptions of travels as a young man and the
extraordinary people he encounters can be lyrical, ferocious,
penetrating and hilarious. Many of his musings include the first
detailed sketches of an essay forming in his mind, or miniature
case histories rivalling those in his beloved essay
collections.Sensitively selected and introduced by Kate Edgar,
Sacks’s longtime editor, the letters trace the arc of a remarkable
life and reveal an often surprising portrait of Sacks as he
wrestles with the workings of his own brain and mind.
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Oliver Sacks ,
Pan Macmillan
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Oliver Sacks,
Pan Macmillan
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