Gratitude
During the last few months of his life he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death. "It is the fate of every human being," Sacks writes, "to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to d...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | During the last few months of his life he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death. "It is the fate of every human being," Sacks writes, "to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death." Together these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 45 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
| ISBN: | 0451492935 (hardcover) 9780451492937 (hardcover) |
| Author Notes: | Dr. Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Musicophilia , and Hallucinations , about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as "the poet laureate of medicine," and over the years he received many awards, including honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. His memoir, On the Move , was published shortly before his death in August 2015. For more information, please visit www.oliversacks.com. |
