Bibliograph

On the move, a life, Oliver Sacks

Type

Label

On the move, a life, Oliver Sacks

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

photographsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

On the move

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Oliver Sacks

Sub title

a life

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

Table Of 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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