Gratitude

by Oliver Sacks

Book Overview

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.

"A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays....A lasting gift to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451492935
• ISBN13: 9780451492937
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

I am grateful for YOU!!!

The almost final book from an eccentric, beloved human being. Oliver Sacks broke ground when he began to write down his stories of his patients, all different, all interesting, and some just plain odd! He didn't care; he reveled in their uniqueness. He was from an extraordinary family of doctors and inventors and was allowed to experiment with all kinds of things! In this book, he describes how he feels knowing that he is dying of an aggressive form of cancer. To read this small book is to wonder about the world and doing the best to live in the moment.