{"product_id":"awakenings-9780330523677","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAwakenings\u003c\/strong\u003e by Oliver W. Sacks. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780330523677.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber. A brilliant and humane book Observer Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius Washington Post It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930087489589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0330523678","price":66.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780330523677.jpg?v=1794204705","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/awakenings-9780330523677","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}