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Title: AWAKENINGS
By: Oliver Sacks
Format: Paperback

List price: £10.99


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ISBN 10: 0330523678
ISBN 13: 9780330523677
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 1 October, 2011
Pages: 448
Description: The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.
Synopsis: 'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber. 'A brilliant and humane book' Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius' Washington Post 'It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on' Doris Lessing
Illustrations: Illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Picador
Returns: Returnable
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