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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

of Oliver Sacks

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Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds new creative power in black & white; & others.

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  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 318 pages
  • Publisher Picador
  • Publication Date 1995
  • First Publication Not informed
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780330343473
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Non-Fiction
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