Gratitude

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"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publicly in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and ho…

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Title Statements

Full title :Gratitude / Oliver Sacks ; [photographs by Bill Hayes].

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Alfred A. Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf of Canada
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

Notes

"A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 45 pages : : illustrations, portraits ; : 18 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780451492937, 0451492935, 9780345811363, 0345811364
oclc:on1202006684
LC Classification:RC339.52.S23
Dewey Decimal:616.80092

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Subjects

AGING Aging -- psychology Attitude to Death Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Collected Work Death -- Psychological aspects England Essais Essay Essays gratitude Médecins Mort -- Aspect psychologique Neurologie Neurologists Neurologists -- Biography. -- England Neurologists -- Biography. -- United St… Neurologues -- Biographies. -- Angleter…