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Also by Oliver Sacks:

On the Move, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Awakenings, June 2013
e-Book (reprint)
Hallucinations, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Musicophilia, October 2008
Paperback
Musicophilia, October 2007
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Oaxaca Journal, October 2005
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, April 1996
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Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks

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
Paperback
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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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