This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. It has since ...
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This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. It has since inspired a TV documentary, radio and stage plays and a major feature film. For this revised edition the author has written much new material, including a section about Awakenings on stage and screen. 'It makes you aware of what a knife-edge we live on' Doris Lessing 'Oliver Sacks is . . . passionate, enquiring, generous, imaginative and supremely literate' New York Times 'Compulsively readable . . . a brilliant and humane book' A. Alvarez, Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, it is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance . . . A work of genius' Washington Post
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Very good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xiii, 255, [2] plates. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt on spine. ISBN: 071560709X VG+ in VG d/w with one very sl nick. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. There is a previous owner's signature on the front end page in blue ink along with a tape residue mark on the front board. The book itself is shelf rubbed, but tightly bound and square. The jacket too, is shelf-rubbed and has a tape residue mark on the front flap, which is also price-clipped, but it remains bright and clean. Internally, the pages are crisp and unmarked. An altogether neat edition which presents handsomely in cellophane.
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As New. 071560709X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION--255 pages. --with a bonus offer--