![]() “Cold Storage” is the bizarre tale of a man Sacks calls “Uncle Toby,” who gradually slipped into a comatose state where he remained, unmoving (and unmoved by his family), for seven years. ![]() “The Catastrophe” sensitively recounts the tragic story of his patient, actor and writer Spalding Gray, who committed suicide some two years after suffering a head injury in a car accident. Sacks has left behind Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, a collection of 34 pieces, some of them previously unpublished-a reminder of the breadth of his professional expertise and the depth of his personal passions.Īdmirers of Sacks’ previous books, like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, will most enjoy the section titled “Clinical Tales.” In these essays, Sacks revisits some of the subjects of the medical case studies for which he’s best known: the way neurological disorders can alter dreams in striking ways, or whether out-of-body and near-death experiences are hallucinations or divine visions.īut Sacks doesn’t confine himself to tinkering with his previous work. ![]() Happily, that’s true of prominent neurologist Oliver Sacks, who’s been gone since 2015. ![]() ![]() When an admired writer dies, one consolation is that his passing doesn’t necessarily mean the end of his appearance in print. ![]()
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