Letters
Oliver Sacks
Edited by Kate Edgar
Loot.co.za (R310)
Picador
‘Oliver Sacks’s Letters isn’t a book of the year – it’s a book for a lifetime... Keep this by your side, dip into it, be reminded of the wonders of our shared humanity’ – Erica Wagner.
Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age – who describes himself in these pages as a ‘philosophical physician’ and an ‘astronomer of the inward’ – wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends.
Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even statesmen: Francis Crick, Antonio Damasio, Jane Goodall, W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Stephen Jay Gould, Björk, and his first cousin, Abba Eban.
But many of the most eloquent letters in this collection are addressed to the ordinary people who wrote to…
