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Gratitude

Sacks, Oliver 1933-2015 (author.).

Summary: "In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publicly in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 0345811364
  • ISBN: 0451492935
  • ISBN: 9780345811363
  • ISBN: 9780451492937
  • Physical Description: print
    xi, 45 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf ; Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf of Canada, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mercury -- My own life -- My periodic table -- Sabbath.

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Subject:
Sacks, Oliver 1933-2015
Aging
Death Psychological aspects
Gratitude
Neurologists England Biography
Neurologists United States Biography
England
United States
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Essays.

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  • 41 of 41 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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