{"product_id":"letters-hardcover","title":"Letters - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliver Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKate Edgar\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks--struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other.\" --Atul Gawande, author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Oliver Sacks--who describes himself in these pages as a \"philosophical physician\" and a \"neuropathological Talmudist\"--wrote letters throughout his life: to his parents and his beloved Auntie Len, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world. The letters begin with his arrival in America as a young man, eager to establish himself away from the confines of postwar England, and carry us through his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer's voice; his weight-lifting, motorcycle-riding years and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e; his growing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain; his many friendships and exchanges with writers, artists, and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSensitively introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks's longtime editor, the letters deliver a portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience, following the thought processes of one of the great intellectuals of our time, whose words, as evidenced in these pages, were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOLIVER SACKS, referred by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"the poet laureate of medicine,\" spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing books about the neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients, including \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMusicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e. His work was frequently published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and over the years, he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 752\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.4 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758569095456,"sku":"9780451492913","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3cdf5e665dd1701bb1cf613253869185_0f082158-6ae9-4581-8526-7e5fd2a26848.webp?v=1780129455","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/letters-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}