On the Move: A Life

On the Move: A Life

<p><b>A <b><i>New York Times </i>Notable Book</b><br><br>One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, <i>St. Louis Post-<b><i>Dispatch</i>, <i>BookPage</i>, <i>Slate</i>, <i>Men€s Journal</i></b></i></b><br><br>When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote: €œSacks will go far, if he does not go too far.€ It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks writes about the passions that have driven his life€"from motorcycles and weight lifting to neurology and poetry. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists€"W. H. Auden, Gerald M. Edelman, Francis Crick€"who have influenced his work. <i>On the Move</i> is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer, a man who has illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.  </p>