On the move : a life
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
ISBN
9781410483485, 1410483487
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY SACKS, O. | On Shelf |
Oak Lawn Public Library - Large Type | LARGE TYPE 616.80092 SACKS | On Shelf |
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
569 pages (large print)), 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; ; 23 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781410483485, 1410483487
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Description
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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LARGE PRINT
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sacks, O. (2015). On the move: a life (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. 2015. On the Move: A Life. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. On the Move: A Life Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sacks, Oliver. On the Move: A Life Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
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