{"title":"Oliver Sacks","description":"\u003cp\u003eOliver Sacks was a British neurologist whose case histories, written with novelistic care, made the strangeness of the brain accessible to general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"letters","title":"Letters","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 Being Mortal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 Awakenings; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oliver Sacks \u0026 Kate Edgar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46680179867876,"sku":"0451492919","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/9780451492913.jpg?v=1756679611"},{"product_id":"gratitude","title":"Gratitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eA deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays….A lasting gift to readers.\" —The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It is the fate of every human being,” Sacks writes, “to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”\u003cbr\u003e—Oliver Sacks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Oliver Sacks was like no other clinician, or writer. He was drawn to the homes of the sick, the institutions of the most frail and disabled, the company of the unusual and the ‘abnormal.’ He wanted to see humanity in its many variants and to do so in his own, almost anachronistic way—face to face, over time, away from our burgeoning apparatus of computers and algorithms. And, through his writing, he showed us what he saw.”\u003cbr\u003e—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oliver Sacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46680179835108,"sku":"0451492935","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0750\/0850\/8132\/files\/9780451492937.jpg?v=1756679610"}],"url":"https:\/\/triumviratebooks.com\/fr\/collections\/oliver-sacks.oembed","provider":"Triumvirate Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}