Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Sacks, Oliver
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0676979785
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979787
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
First printing of the First Canadian edition. Signed by Oliver Sacks on front endpaper. 352 pages + Bibliography & Index. Appears virtually "as new."
Synopsis
Revised and ExpandedWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music.Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ted Brown (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 401923
- Title
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0676979785
- ISBN 13
- 9780676979787
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology; Music;
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