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    On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.

    • Title:On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.
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    • Author/Creator:Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
      ©2015.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
      Neurologists--England--Biography.
      Neurologists--United States--Biography.
    • Medical Subjects: Neurosciences--history.
    • Genre/Form:Autobiographies.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:397 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
    • Summary: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.
    • Notes:"This is a Borzoi book."
      Includes index.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780385352543 hardcover
      0385352549 hardcover
    • Contents: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.
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