{"product_id":"letters-9780451492913","title":"Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne of The New Statesman's Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003eOne of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2024\u003cbr\u003eOne of The New Yorker's 'Best Books We've Read in 2024 So Far' \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks--struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other.\" --Atul Gawande, author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Mortal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Oliver Sacks--who describes himself in these pages as a \"philosophical physician\" and a \"neuropathological Talmudist\"--wrote letters throughout his life: to his parents and his beloved Auntie Len, to friends and colleagues from London, Oxford, California, and around the world. The letters begin with his arrival in America as a young man, eager to establish himself away from the confines of postwar England, and carry us through his bumpy early career in medicine and the discovery of his writer's voice; his weight-lifting, motorcycle-riding years and his explosive seasons of discovery with the patients who populate his book \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e; his growing interest in matters of sight and the musical brain; his many friendships and exchanges with writers, artists, and scientists (to say nothing of astronauts, botanists, and mathematicians), and his deep gratitude for all these relationships at the end of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSensitively introduced and edited by Kate Edgar, Sacks's longtime editor, the letters deliver a portrait of Sacks as he wrestles with the workings of the brain and mind. We see, through his eyes, the beginnings of modern neuroscience, following the thought processes of one of the great intellectuals of our time, whose words, as evidenced in these pages, were unfailingly shaped with generosity and wonder toward other people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOLIVER SACKS spent more than fifty years working as a neurologist and writing essays about the neurological predicaments of his patients. His articles appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, which referred to him as \"the poet laureate of medicine.\" His many bestselling books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMusicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e, have been translated into dozens of languages and enchanted millions of readers. Dr. Sacks was profiled by the filmmaker Ric Burns in the PBS American Masters film \u003ci\u003eOliver Sacks\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHis Own Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and his book \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e inspired the Hollywood film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874950156562,"sku":"9780451492913","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3bcd7038-d8be-4a36-a392-5b87b3d55ca1.jpg?v=1738012731","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-9780451492913","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}