Description
| Product ID: | 9781529087420 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | A Leg to Stand On |
| Authors: | Author: Oliver Sacks |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Popular psychology, Travel writing, Popular psychology, Travel writing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. <p><b>‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - <i>Observer</i></b><br><br>When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that of patient. The injury itself was severe, but straightforward to fix; the psychological effects, however, were far less easy to predict, explain, or resolve: Sacks experienced paralysis and an inability to perceive his leg as his own, instead seeing it as some kind of alien and inanimate object, over which he had no control.<br><br><b><i>A Leg to Stand On</i> is both an account of Sacks’ ordeal and subsequent recovery, and an exploration of the ways in which mind and body are inextricably linked.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-20 |