EAN: 9781529087451

ON THE MOVE - OLIVER SACKS TASCHENBUCH

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old  a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks
will go far  if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never
stopped going . . .   From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and
speed  On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a
young neurologist in the early 1960s  first in California and then in New York  where he
discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital  as well as with a
group of patients who would define his life  it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for
engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters and travels - sending him through bars and
alleys  over oceans  and across continents.  With unbridled honesty and humour  Sacks shows us
that the same energy that drives his physical passions -bodybuilding  weightlifting  and
swimming - also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about 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.   On the Move is the story of a
brilliantly unconventional physician and writer - and of the man who has illuminated the many
ways that the brain makes us human.

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