Everything Is Illuminated (association copy)
NY: Penguin, 2008. First thus. Softcover.
A great association copy, inscribed ornately to his fellow eminent New York City writer: "For Oliver Sacks, who I admire enormously, best, Jonathan Safran Foer." Foer's acclaimed debut novel, uncommon signed in this edition. It won the The Guardian First Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award among others. Toning to pages, otherwise fine in wraps.
Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist that the New York Times dubbed “the poet laureate of contemporary medicine.” He spent the bulk of his medical career as a professor of neurology at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There he began to write about some of his neurology patients (he burned the manuscript of his first book, Ward 23, in a fit of anxiety about his new direction). He went on to publish fourteen books from 1970 to 2015, the year he died also of cancer, most of them with a focus on highly researched clinical anecdotes, including such lauded works as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (the main case study of which is a man with “face blindness,” something Sacks also suffered from, and which deeply impacted his social interactions) and The Island of the Colorblind
ISBN: 9780141037325
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