And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece 'Awakenings' - the account of his long-dormant patients' miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years, the two men worked closely together until, for wracking personal reasons, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends, however, across the next thirty years and then, just as Sacks was dying, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty.

ISBN:	9781250619600
Publisher:	Picador
Imprint:	Picador USA
Published date:	07 Dec 2020
DEWEY:	616.80092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	400
Weight:	304g
Height:	210mm
Width:	138mm
Spine width:	17mm

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