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A Note About the Author
Oliver Sacks is a professor of neurology and psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine and the author of many books, including Musicophilia, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Awakenings (which inspired the Oscar-nominated film).
Other titles available in eBook format by Oliver Sacks
The Mind’s Eye. 978-0-307-59455-6
Musicophilia. 978-0-307-26791-7
Oaxaca Journal. 978-0-307-94758-1
Vintage Sacks. 978-0-307-43005-2
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ALSO BY OLIVER SACKS
Migraine
A Leg to Stand On
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Seeing Voices
An Anthropologist on Mars
The Island of the Colorblind
Uncle Tungsten
Oaxaca Journal
Musicophilia
The Mind’s Eye