Título:
On the move : a memoir / Oliver Sacks.
ISBN:
9780385352543
Autor personal:
Información de publicación:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Descripción física:
397 pages, 32 un-numbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Nota general:
"This is a Borzoi book."
Includes index.
Contenido:
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.
Síntesis:
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.
Materia personal:
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DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn900565064
Disponibilidad:
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