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Gratitude / Oliver Sacks.
Author
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
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Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2015.
©2015
Description
xi, 45 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
RC339.52.S23 A3 2015b
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Neurologists
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England
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Biography
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Neurologists
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United States
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Biography
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Neurology
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Sacks, Oliver 1933-2015
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Death and burial
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Personal narratives
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Essays
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Autobiographies
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essays
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
"A beautiful--in both its content and production--and deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life, and face death with grace and joy, by the beloved Oliver Sacks. Before his death in summer 2015 at the age of 82, Oliver Sacks announced his own coming death from cancer to the public in 4 beautifully written, eloquent pieces he published in The New York Times. The heartfelt response from readers across the world was immediate. Gratitude gathers those pieces together in a beautifully produced, small tribute book that is as inspiring as it is insightful. In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote an eloquent piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life continues to enthrall him even as he faces the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that remain in the richest and deepest way possible. It's an impassioned statement about the joy of being a sentient being and the pleasures he continues to find from his intercourse with the world, as well as a meditation that readers of all ages will cherish and re-read for the comfort and wisdom it provides."-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Contents
Mercury
My own life
My periodic table
Sabbath.
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Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN
9780345811363 ((bound))
0345811364
OCLC
922834349
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