![]() ![]() ![]() Their friendship endured, providing a lifetime of material. Weschler ends by speculating that Sacks altered neurological practice itself through his attentive compassion for the patients who feature in his stories." -Barbara Kiser, Nature "In genre terms, neither fish nor fowl but, rather, some other odd, often delightful animal." -The New Yorker "In 1981, Lawrence Weschler, a New Yorker staff writer, began interviewing the brilliant neurologist Oliver Sacks. exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar. This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients. Compellingly, Weschler intertwines Sacks's searching empathy with his sheer strangeness." -Daniel Bergner, The New York Times Book Review " engrossing biographical memoir. Weschler resurrects the interviews he did in the early '80s with Sacks's friends and colleagues, and with Sacks himself, who illuminates his insistence not merely on the humanity of patients who suffered everything from extreme Tourette's to severe amnesia, but also on something spiritual within them. ![]() ![]() "Provide striking glimpses into a remarkable life. ![]()
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