Synopsis
‘Oliver Sacks is a neurologist, a man of humane eloquence, and a genuine communicator’ Observer
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...
Details
07 November 2024688 pages
9781509821853Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks—struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no otherAtul Gawande, author of Being Mortal
Here is Oliver Sacks annealed. All his largehearted curiosity, all his childlike wonder at how everything coheres, all the self-doubt trembling beneath his brilliance, come alive on these pages. One is left magnified just by bearing witness to this vast and solitary mind, searching for connection and discovering himselfMaria Popova, author of Figuring
Oliver Sacks’s letters are superb—fluent, brilliant, candid, intimate—and some of them are deliriously passionate. Oliver could write a multi-page love letter as well as a lengthy analysis of a drug state or a neurological condition. Taken together, over more than fifty years, they constitute an autobiography in epistolary formPaul Theroux, author of The Mosquito Coast and Burma Sahib
Be prepared to discover a world of human treasures in the letters of Oliver Sacks . . . One marvel here is that Sacks’ literary genius manages to reveal both sides of a conversation, although we are only made privy to his perspective on the issuesAntonio Damasio, author of Feeling and Knowing
