On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks
By: Sacks, Oliver [author].
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016Edition: First Vintage books edition.Description: 397 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780804170932.Subject(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 | Neurologists -- England -- Biography | Neurologists -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Print books. | Biography.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC339.52.S23 A3 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005843 |
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2015"--Title page verso
Includes index
On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home
Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; 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