{"product_id":"uncle-tungsten-memories-of-a-chemical-boyhood-paperback","title":"Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliver Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAwakenings \u003c\/i\u003echronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/b\u003e we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his \"Uncle Tungsten,\" whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes-in his own home laboratory. \u003cb\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/b\u003e is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of \"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and \"Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. \u003cbr\u003eIn Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his \"Uncle Tungsten,\" whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes-in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOliver Sacks was a neurologist, writer, and professor of medicine. Born in London in 1933, he moved to New York City in 1965, where he launched his medical career and began writing case studies of his patients. Called the \"poet laureate of medicine\" by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Sacks is the author of thirteen books, 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, which inspired an Oscar-nominated film and a play by Harold Pinter. He was the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2008 for services to medicine. 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