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Awakenings
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients.
Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all 20 had spent 40 years in hospital - motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber.
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"The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it." (The Guardian)
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- Khan
- 04-12-21
Mesmerising
Amazing achievement!
The nature of the book requires active listening and can at times be a hard listen, that said it's definitely one that adds a nuance to the world as you know it.
You walk away feeling as though you too had visited the patients and seen the miraculous awakenings of Mount Carmel :)
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- shelley
- 22-04-23
An incredible story
What a story to tell! I’m redo my interesting and well written. I loved how he looked at the whole scenario from multiple, and not just a medicinal perspective. A great listen/read.
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-09-20
Incredible!
This is the best of Oliver Sacks works that I have read so far. So deep, so complete..personality, physiology and pathology brought together.
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- Client d'Amazon
- 01-10-20
Enjoyably extended from the original, well read
Really enjoyed the book and the revisitations at the end of it, especially those concerned with the film and stage adaptation of Awakenings.
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