On the Move
01 May 2015
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .
From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As...
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01 May 2015
256 pages
9781447265450
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Deeply moving. . . a gift to his readers - of erudition, sympathy and an abiding understanding of the joys, trials and consolations of the human conditionMichiko Kakutani, New York Times
Sacks's empathy and intellectual curiosity, his delight in, as he calls it, "joining particulars with generalities" and, especially, "narratives with neuroscience" - have never been more evident than in his beautifully conceived new book. . .remarkably candid and deeply affectingBoston Globe
Honest, lucid, passionate, humorous, humane and human (also slightly Martian). . .[a] marvelous memoir, which is as unconventional and singular as the man himselfColin McGinn, Wall Street Journal
AbsorbingChicago Tribune