Swan Song

On the Move: A Life - Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks Awakenings - Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales - Oliver Sacks

Too bad there's no bittersweet emoji. (And ironic that a website that dedicates itself to the discussion of books would want us to distill our ideas about a thing made of many words to a little yellow circle. Aren't we all here to avoid this?)

 

Anyway.

 

This is Oliver Sacks love letter to the world. If you've followed his career, Sacks briefly goes over his own mental state and reactions to the ups and downs of his life. If you've read his books, you'll recognize each and enjoy the fleshing out and added information. If you've somehow managed to miss out on Sacks' wide-ranging, literate exposees of the neurological world, then consider this a reading list.