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Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015,

Gratitude / Oliver Sacks ; [photographs by Bill Hayes]. - First edition. - xi, 45 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm

"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Mercury -- My own life -- My periodic table -- Sabbath.

"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"--

ISBN: 9780451492937 0451492935

LCCN: 2015952928

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101675381 DNLM

Subjects--Personal Names:
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Death--Psychological aspects.
Neurologists--England--Biography.
Neurologists--United States--Biography.
Gratitude.
Aging.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies.
Essays.