{"product_id":"oliver-sacks-the-last-interview-isbn-9781612195773","title":"Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary collection of interviews with the beloved doctor and author, whose research and books inspired generations of readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oliver Sacks—called “the poet laureate of medicine” by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e—illuminated the mysteries of the brain for a wide audience in a series of richly acclaimed books, including \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, and numerous \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e articles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this collection of interviews, Sacks is at his most candid and disarming, rich with insights about his life and work. Any reader of Sacks will find in this book an entirely new way of looking at a brilliant writer.\"Dr. Sacks conjures apparitions in language that has an easy, tactile magic . . . He illuminate[s] the complexities of the human brain and the mysteries of the human.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is rare, indeed, when such an expert is also a talented writer . . . It is remarkable to see the consistency of this literate, inquiring mind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amazing . . . Sacks's temperament . . . facilitates that extraordinary humanity, that loving curiosity about the experiences of other people, that near-magical ability to see how even the most seemingly devastating losses may be remedied by the mind's remarkable powers of compensation.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Bookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver Sacks \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in 1933 in London and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book \u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e. Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHallucination\u003c\/i\u003es, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. 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. He died in 2015.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304756039909,"sku":"NP9781612195773","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781612195773.jpg?v=1767734062","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/oliver-sacks-the-last-interview-isbn-9781612195773","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}