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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
Hardcover
Oaxaca Journal, October 2005
Trade Size
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, April 1996
Trade Size (reprint)

AWAKENINGS
By: Oliver Sacks

Vintage
June 2013
On Sale: May 29, 2013
464 pages
ISBN: 0375704051
EAN: 9780375704055
Kindle: B00CNQ2NTK
e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction

Awakenings--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.

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Fresh Air - NPR - August 31, 2015