On the move : a life /
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." 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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." 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 he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions -- weight lifting and swimming -- also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists -- Thom Gunn, A.R. Luria, W.H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick -- who influenced him. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. "This is a Borzoi book." The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | 397 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780385352543 0385352549 9780345808967 0345808967 |