Musicophilia
12 July 2018Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by neuroscientist Daniel Glaser.
With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people. Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with ‘amusia’, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of poets and pans;...
Details
12 July 2018464 pages
9781529011876Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Fascinating. Music, as Sacks explains, “can pierce the heart directly”. And this is the truth that he so brilliantly focuses upon – that music saves, consoles and nourishes us.Daily Mail
An elegantly outlined series of case studies . . . which reveal the depth to which music grips so many people.Observer
A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wondersDaily Telegraph
