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A Leg to Stand On
A Leg to Stand On
Author: Oliver W Sacks
Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. — In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mount...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060970826
ISBN-10: 0060970820
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 222
Edition: 1st Perennial Librar
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Publisher: Perennial Library
Book Type: Paperback
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A lot slower than Sacks' other books (with the possible exception of "Island of the Colorblind" where he goes off on tangents about ferns). This book DOES have a lot of insight into the kind of person that Sacks is, and why he thinks the way he does, but if you're interested in STORIES, I would recommend "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" or "An Anthropoligist on Mars."


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