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On the Move - A Life (Paperback)
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On the Move - A Life (Paperback)
Series: Picador Collection
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List price R285
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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 he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in
the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, where he
discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic
hospital, as well as with a group of patients who would define his
life, it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for engagement
has occasioned unexpected encounters and travels - sending him
through bars and alleys, over oceans, and across continents. With
unbridled honesty and humour, Sacks shows us that the same energy
that drives his physical passions -bodybuilding, weightlifting, 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. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly
unconventional physician and writer - and of the man who has
illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
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