On the move: a life
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Published:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
Large print edition.
Physical Desc:
569 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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." 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, where he struggled with drug addiction, and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life. Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions -- weight lifting 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
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Street Date:
1510.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781410483485, 1410483487

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Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Sacks, O. (2015). On the move: a life. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. 2015. On the Move: A Life. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015, On the Move: A Life. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Sacks, Oliver. On the Move: A Life. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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