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Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
Vintage Books
October 2008
On Sale: September 23, 2008
448 pages
ISBN: 1400033535
EAN: 9781400033539
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Non-Fiction
With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought
to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks
explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it
affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a
variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among
them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to
become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group
of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical
from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds
like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose
memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable,
Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.
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