And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

by Lawrence Weschler

Book Overview

The untold story of Dr. Oliver Sacks, his own most singular patient

An] engrossing biographical memoir. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar. --Barbara Kiser, Nature

The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374236410
• ISBN13: 9780374236410
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"