About this title: After breaking his leg escaping a bull, Oliver Sacks ruminates on the strangeness of recovery as he progresses through his own unusual convalescence.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. 0671467808 Condition: VERY GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, cover wear, name written inside cover, light underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, etc. Overall, the book is in solid shape. This is a blanket description. Please e us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of your request). read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perennial Library
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780060970826ISBN:0060970820
Description: Very Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, pages age toning, small water stain lower right corner(middle ten or fifteen pages. Causing some wrinkling but not affecting text)and some overall light to moderate shopwear. Text is clean. read more
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good. No Jacket Very Good. No DJ Issued Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 222 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Summit Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780671467807ISBN:0671467808
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Jacket in fair condition. small tear at bottom. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780330325103ISBN:0330325108
Description: Very Good. Spine lightly creased, but no marks and very clean. 189 pp. Sacks' own case history of his broken leg and convalescence. read more
"Sacks completely wrecked his leg in a run-in with a bull on a mountain in Norway, and barely got out alive. This is his memoir of his recovery, focusing on his post-operative distress to discover that the leg was psychologically absent from his body awareness, thanks probably to undiagnosed nerve damage.
I picked this up on a tangent from other research, and it was useful as subjective narrative. But it's also grossly overwritten in places. I'm kind of torn, because this book is clearly trauma post-processing from start to finish, and like a lot of post-trauma writing it's deeply self-involved and recursive and bound up in minutiae of memory that mean nothing to everyone who isn't Oliver Sacks. So kind of frustrating. But, I mean, I'm glad he wrote the book, because he clearly needed to."
"It's a particular pleasure to read this neuroscientist's account of his disassociation with his ailing body (in this case, the alienation from his own leg) as the doctor becomes the patient and describes in detail what so many patients cannot."
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