This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. It has since ...
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This is an extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive 'awakening' effect they experienced forty years later through a new drug, L-DOPA, administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Now hailed as a medical classic, Awakenings was first published in 1973 and won the Hawthornden Prize of that year. It has since inspired a TV documentary, radio and stage plays and a major feature film. For this revised edition the author has written much new material, including a section about Awakenings on stage and screen. 'It makes you aware of what a knife-edge we live on' Doris Lessing 'Oliver Sacks is . . . passionate, enquiring, generous, imaginative and supremely literate' New York Times 'Compulsively readable . . . a brilliant and humane book' A. Alvarez, Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, it is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance . . . A work of genius' Washington Post
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Jacket now in fresh Mylar. First UK edition and first hardcover edition, published by Duckworth, 1973. Hardcover in jacket, price intact on jacket flap. Some water damage to jacket verso, top page edges, and rear top board edge. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Small puncture to jacket and board spine. Presents well in fresh Mylar. Decent copy with several flaws. Good condition. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Additional photos available upon request. All of our books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. There is a previous owner's signature on the front end page in blue ink along with a tape residue mark on the front board. The book itself is shelf rubbed, but tightly bound and square. The jacket too, is shelf-rubbed and has a tape residue mark on the front flap, which is also price-clipped, but it remains bright and clean. Internally, the pages are crisp and unmarked. An altogether neat edition which presents handsomely in cellophane.
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As New. 071560709X. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION--255 pages. --with a bonus offer--