When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote
in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now
abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going . . .
From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and
speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts
his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in
California and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten
illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, as well as with a group
of patients who would define his life, it becomes clear that Sacks's
earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters and
travels - sending him through bars and alleys, over oceans, and across
continents.
With unbridled honesty and humour, Sacks shows us
that the same energy that drives his physical passions -bodybuilding,
weightlifting, and swimming - also drives his cerebral passions. He
writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual, his guilt
over leaving his family to come to America, his bond with his
schizophrenic brother, and the writers and scientists - Thom Gunn, A. R. Luria, W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick - who influenced him. On the Move is the story
of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer - and of the man
who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
On the Move : A Life - Oliver Sacks
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