On the move : a life / Oliver Sacks.

Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015 (Author).

Summary:

Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists--Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick--who influenced him.

Record details

ISBN: 9780385352543
ISBN: 0385352549
Physical Description: 397 pages, 32un-numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index. "This is a Borzoi book."
Formatted Contents Note:	On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home.