Gratitude: Sacks, Oliver.- Sacks, Oliver

Alfred A. Knopf of Canada. 2015. null xi, 45 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta. Idioma Inglés. First edition. A Borzoi book --Title page verso. 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 --. Personal Narratives. Collected Works. Biography. Autobiographies. Essays . ISBN: 2015952928; 9780451492937; 9780345811363