Oliver Sacks was born in London and educated in London, Oxford, California, and New York. He is professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is the author of many books, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Jerome Bruner The New York Review of Books A neurologist in [the]
great tradition... [this is] a narrative comparable to Conrad's The
Secret Sharer.
Jonathan Raban The Sunday Times (London) A remarkable, generous,
vivid and thoroughly intelligent piece of writing -- a
'neurological novel, ' as Sacks calls it.
Vic Sussman The Washington Post Book World In calling for a
neurology of the soul and a deeper and more humane medicine,
Sacks's remarkable book raises issues of profound importance for
everyone interested in humane health care and the human application
of science.
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