![]() It was later made into the 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall and was produced by Walter Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, who first encountered Sacks's book as undergraduates at Yale University and optioned it a few years later. ![]() He documents their spiritual and medical obstacles with great care to portray their individual personalities, long suppressed but finally released. ![]() Sacks came to work at a long-term care facility shortly before the first exciting results with L-dopa and Parkinson's in the late 1960s his patients soon embarked on dramatic, difficult recoveries from up to 50 years of torpor. ![]() These patients, only occasionally able to communicate or move, were nearly all institutionalized for life, their ranks increasing every now and then with similarly afflicted men and women. Hailed by The Washington Post as, "One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." The Awakenings tells the story of sleeping-sickness epidemic of 1918 which caused hundreds of survivors to slip into a paralysis with similarities to advanced Parkinson's disease. 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. $1,200.00 Item Number: 95790įirst edition of Sacks’ classic work. ![]()
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