Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview
  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781612195773
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $32.99
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Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview

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An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved author and doctor, whose research and books inspired generations of readers.

An extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers

Oliver Sacks—called “the poet laureate of medicine” by the New York Times—illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly acclaimed books, including Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and numerous New Yorker articles.

In this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer.
  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781612195773
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933 into a family of physicians and scientists, and studied medicine at Oxford University. He moved to New York in 1965, where he began to work as a consultant for the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, a chronic care hospital. Later in his career he became as a professor of neurology at Columbia University and at NYU. His first book, Migraine, was published in 1970; his last, Gratitude, in 2015, shortly after his death. Other books include Awakenings (1973), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) and The Mind's Eye (2010). He received honours from, amongst others, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Art and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Praise for Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview

"Dr. Sacks conjures apparitions in language that has an easy, tactile magic . . . He illuminate[s] the complexities of the human brain and the mysteries of the human." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"It is rare, indeed, when such an expert is also a talented writer . . . It is remarkable to see the consistency of this literate, inquiring mind." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Amazing . . . Sacks's temperament . . . facilitates that extraordinary humanity, that loving curiosity about the experiences of other people, that near-magical ability to see how even the most seemingly devastating losses may be remedied by the mind's remarkable powers of compensation." --Bookforum

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