- Title:
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Awakenings
- Written by:
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Oliver Sacks
- Read by:
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Jonathan Davis; Oliver Sacks
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 8 minutes
- Published:
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October 01 2019
- Available Date:
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October 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529011197
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Medicine
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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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 group of 20 patients.
Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber.
'One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.'
The Washington Post
'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