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«Headlong. The Story of a Life was named the best book of the year by National Public Radio, the San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Men's Journal, and other media. The New York Times called it a landmark book. Sachs is also known as the author of the world bestsellers The Awakening, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Migraine, and others.

Topic

Memoirs, biography, medicine, psychology, psychiatry, travel.

About the book

«Headlong is a memoir by Oliver Sacks, which he wrote, already knowing that he was terminally ill. In this book, the author appears in unusual roles for a doctor and frankly tells about the vicissitudes of life as a shy introvert who, through a combination of personal and professional experience, acquires a unique sensitivity to the condition of other people (and not only his patients). Sachs recalls the most important events, significant meetings, important places and people who made him who he is today.

Who is the book for

For the widest possible range of readers, anyone interested in psychology, travel, and the lives of famous people. Why this book is a surprise Death was not a surprise to Sachs. He turned it into literature, because as soon as he learned of his fatal diagnosis, he immediately began writing notes about his life, which eventually led to this book. In this book, Sacks appears to the reader sincere, honest and without any masks.

About the author

Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) was a British neurologist, professor at New York University, one of the most famous popularisers of medical science. Sacks became world famous for his books in which he described unusual cases of mental disorders of his patients (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, An Anthropologist on Mars, Hallucinations). In 2001, he was awarded the Thomas L. Lewis Prize for books about science. Sacks's 1990 book The Awakening was made into a film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The New York Times aphoristically called him the "poet laureate of modern medicine."