The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and
Musicophilia
‘An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents,
in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result
is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories’
Independent on Sunday
As with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks uses case studies
to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our
sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around
us. Writing