'Sacks has written a book about a leg, his leg; but it is a
story about the nature of selfhood - a narrative comparable to
Conrad's " The Secret Sharer"' "New York Review of Books "
'Losing the use of a limb is a catastrophe, and it needed a
thoughtful essay written about it. This is it. It is more than
that. Oliver Sacks is a neurologist of wide lay reading, a man of
humane eloquence, a genuine communicator aware of the damnable rift
that subsists between doctor and patient. Its value lies in its
willingness to combine the technical and the demonic, to admit
poetry and philosophy and the religious impulse. It is also
intensely personal, but it affirms the community of human
experience' Anthony Burgess, "Observer"
'It is in every way a marvellously rich and thoughtful tale. Dr
Sacks has, once again, emphatically shown how much there is still
to be learned from painstakingly observed and chronicled case
history' " Sunday Telegraph"
'Dr Sacks reviews his predicament in exact clinical, emotional
and philosophical terms. No one has described that famous condition
so well before. A remarkable, generous, vivid and thoroughly
intelligent piece of writing' "Sunday Times"
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