Bibliograph

And how are you, Dr. Sacks?, a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks, Lawrence Weschler

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And how are you, Dr. Sacks?, a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks, Lawrence Weschler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

And how are you, Dr. Sacks?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Weschler

Sub title

a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

And how are you, Doctor Sacks?

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