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Gratitude by Oliver Sacks (Hardcover, 2015)

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Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

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Publisher
Picador, Pan Macmillan
ISBN-10
1509822801
ISBN-13
9781509822805
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221144633

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gratitude
Author
Oliver Sacks
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback, Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Medicine, Memorials, Anthologies, Biology, Literary Theory, Popular Psychology
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
64 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
182mm
Item Width
126mm
Item Weight
147g

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Place of Publication
London
Title_Author
Oliver Sacks
Content Note
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Author Biography
Oliver Sacks was 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 at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings. Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine', and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015. For more information, please visit www.oliversacks.com.
Date of Publication
19/11/2015
Edition Statement
Reprints
Interest Age
From 18
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by robisu514 Jan, 2021
Oliver Sacks GRATITUDE is a must read book!
After watching his film I just had to read his book. Such a remarkable human being. No one has or will come close to his absolute fascination and love of the human mind and genuine care for all creatures great and small. Both film and book leave you with a great feeling that life ideally is good and love is all around.
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