Awakenings Paperback - 1999
by Oliver Sacks
With compassion and insight, the doctor who inspired the major motion picture "Awakenings" offers "a collection of astonishing case histories . . . A work of genius" ("The Washington Post"). of illustrations.
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"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." --"The Washington Post
"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book." --A. Alvarez, "The Observer Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
"[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience." --"The Boston Globe "A masterpiece." --W. H. Auden
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"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." --"The Washington Post
"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book." --A. Alvarez, "The Observer Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
"[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience." --"The Boston Globe "A masterpiece." --W. H. Auden
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- Title Awakenings
- Author Oliver Sacks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1999-10-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780375704055 / 0375704051
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease, Epidemic encephalitis - Complications
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99027880
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.832
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- People Weekly, 09/14/2015, Page 50
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