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At the same time, he was experimenting with a wide range of mood-altering drugs, experiences he wrote about in greater depth in his book Hallucinations He later moved to New York, where he lived on City Island off the Bronx, and regularly swum around it — swimming remains one of his passions to this day. His truly has been a life lived to the full — and beyond.
Friendships with such divergent luminaries as Francis Crick and WH Auden , and with his childhood companions Jonathan Miller and Eric Korn, bring a roseate glow to reminiscence without ever rendering it sickly. The detailed examinations of his own writing life — including the eight traumatic years it took him to write A Leg to Stand On — are set beside pen portraits of the many patients who have shared their lives with him.
The fruits of success are counterpointed with some quite astonishing professional setbacks, including manuscripts lost and books plagiarised.
On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks – review
When Sacks began practising as a neurologist, the theoretical understanding of the relationship of the brain to the conscious mind was still based on gross anatomy: The advances in brain-imaging have informed new conceptions of the brain, as a highly plastic environment in which there is constant reorganisation. Perhaps it is because he has kept on the move that he has always been able to hide in plain sight.
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