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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador)

by Oliver Sacks | Health, Mind & Body |
ISBN: 0330294911 Global Overview for this book
Registered by bobpp of Tolworth, Greater London United Kingdom on 9/19/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by bobpp from Tolworth, Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, September 19, 2016
Oliver Sacks is always absorbing - fascinating and also entertaining. (And he also went to my old school, where he was friends with Peter Cook.) This is a volume of short pieces. In most of the pieces, Sacks starts with a patient exhibiting some bizarre neurological abnormality. Just at the level of case description, he is fascinating - always a "well fancy that!" reaction. But his writing is so much more than Ripleys Believe it or Not - Sacks extrapolates from individual cases to make penetrating and intriguing generalizations about the human condition, while remaining totally readable.

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