Synopsis
'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...
Details
20 April 2023464 pages
9781529087437Imprint: Picador
Reviews
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
