Gratitude / Oliver Sacks.
By: Sacks, Oliver [author.].
Publisher: New York : Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf ; Alfred A. Knopf of Canada, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First edition.Description: xi, 45 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780451492937; 0451492935; 9788433963970.Subject(s): Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 | Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 | Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 | Death -- Psychological aspects | Neurologists -- England -- Biography | Neurologists -- United States -- Biography | Gratitude | Aging | Neurology | Physicians | Attitude to Death | Aging -- psychology | Aging | Death -- Psychological aspects | Gratitude | Neurologists | England | United States | England | United StatesGenre/Form: Personal Narratives. | Collected Works. | Autobiographies. | Biography. | Essays. | Autobiographies. | Essays.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC339.52.S23 A32 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007437 |
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Mercury -- My own life -- My periodic table -- Sabbath.
"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publicly in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--