TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sacks,Oliver
TI  - Gratitude
SN  - 9780451492937
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, Toronto
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf of Canada
KW  - Sacks, Oliver,
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Neurologists
KW  - England
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Gratitude
KW  - Aging
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Essays
N1  - "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso; Mercury -- My own life -- My periodic table -- Sabbath
N2  - "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"--
ER  -