6/5/2023 0 Comments Awakening book oliver sacks![]() ![]() Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For John Rogers, with best wishes, Oliver Sacks Aug 2015." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The playright Harold Pinter was also sufficiently inspired by the work to adapt it into a one-act play, A Kind of Alaska, which premiered at the Cottesloe theatre (now Dorfman) in 1982, starring Judi Dench.įirst edition of Sacks' classic work. Auden wrote, "have read the book and think it a masterpiece". Having read the book in prior to his death in 1973, W. ![]() The image shows a photograph taken on Sacks' City Island home in New York. The book was subsequently made into a film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, with this paperback cover echoing the theatrical release poster. 3/91.' First published in 1973, Awakenings was one of Sacks' breakthrough works, which chronicled the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic. ![]() First paperback edition thus, inscribed by Oliver to his niece: 'For Liz, with love, Olly. , x-xxxix,, 4-408 with a few leaves after black and white photographs author's gift inscription in purple felt pen to title light creasing to lower panel paper stock evenly toned, as is common, else near-fine. ![]()
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