On the move : a memoir / Oliver Sacks.

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    • Abstract:
      Summary: Physician and writer Oliver Sacks recounts his experiences as a young neurologist; his physical passions--weight lifting and swimming; 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.
    • Content Notes:
      On the move -- Leaving the nest -- San Francisco -- Muscle beach -- Out of reach -- Awakenings -- The bull on the mountain -- A matter of identity -- City island -- Voyages -- A new vision of the mind -- Home.
    • Notes:
      "This is a Borzoi book."
      Includes index.
      1 17
    • ISBN:
      9780385352543
      0385352549
    • Accession Number:
      2015001870
    • Accession Number:
      900565064
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.957656