{"product_id":"9780307430052","title":"Vintage Sacks (Vintage Readers Literature Series)","description":"Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is Dr. Sacks’s gift that he has found a way to enlarge our experience and understanding of what the human is.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDubbed “the poet laureate of medicine” by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e Oliver Sacks is a practicing neurologist and a mesmerizing storyteller. His empathetic accounts of his patients’s lives—and wrily observed narratives of his own—convey both the extreme borderlands of human experience and the miracles of ordinary seeing, speaking, hearing, thinking, and feeling.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVintage Sacks\u003c\/b\u003e includes the introduction and case study “Rose R.” from \u003cb\u003eAwakenings \u003c\/b\u003e(the book that inspired the Oscar-nominated movie), as well as “A Deaf World” from \u003cb\u003eSeeing Voices\u003c\/b\u003e; “The Visions of Hildegard” from \u003cb\u003eMigraine\u003c\/b\u003e; excerpts from “Island Hopping” and “Pingelap” from \u003cb\u003eThe Island of the Colorblind\u003c\/b\u003e; “A Surgeon’s Life” from \u003cb\u003eAn Anthropologist on Mars\u003c\/b\u003e; and two chapters from Sacks’s acclaimed memoir \u003cb\u003eUncle Tungsten\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083379163376,"sku":"9780307430052","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307430052_p0.jpg?v=1763672509","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307430052","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}