Awakenings
- Author Oliver Sacks
- Narrator Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 13 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Literary essays, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Neurosciences, Popular psychology.
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What to expect
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' – Guardian
Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients.
Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it – until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber . . .
Critics Review
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A brilliant and humane book.
Observer -
It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on.
Doris Lessing -
Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius.
Washington Post
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