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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015.

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Title:

Awakenings (MP3)

Written by:

Oliver Sacks 

Read by:

Jonathan Davis; Oliver Sacks 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

13 hours 8 minutes 

MP3 size:

542 MB 

Published:

October 01 2019 

Available Date:

October 01 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781529011203 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Medicine 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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Bestselling author

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 by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 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.

'One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.'
The Washington Post

'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