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NATIONAL BESTSELLER – With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. “Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind.” —The New York Times In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but , inspiring, and utterly unforgettable.
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 9/23/2008
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04 lbs
Size: 7.9″ H x 5.1″ L x 1.1″ W
ISBN: 9781400033539
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