And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks / Lawrence Weschler.
And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks / Lawrence Weschler.
And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks / Lawrence Weschler.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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G 2019/4490
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
x, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue -- Part I: Getting to know him / 1. Going for a row -- 2. Early childhood, a harrowing exile, cruel Judaism, homosexuality, and a mother's curse -- 3. Conversations with Bob Rodman and Thom Gunn in California -- 4. A visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and lunch at a...
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings--the account of his long-dormant patients' miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospita...
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And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks / Lawrence Weschler.
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Includes index.
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©2019
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G 2019/4490
Record Identifier
74VKV5K8XxMM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5K8XxMM
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ISBN
0374236410 (hardcover)
9780374236410 (hardcover)
DDC
616.80092 B
MMS ID
991024267818002626
