{"product_id":"9780060973681","title":"Awakenings","description":" \"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.\"  —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book.\"  —A. Alvarez, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/i\u003e—which inspired the major motion picture—is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, \"awakening\" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience.\"        —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece.\"  —W. H. Auden  ","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046865649904,"sku":"9780060973681","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060973681_p0.jpg?v=1763620396","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060973681","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}