"Insightful, compassionate, moving . . . the lucidity and power of a gifted writer."
--The New York Times Book Review
"A provocative introduction to the human mind."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Dr. Sacks's best book. . . . One sees a wise, compassionate and very literate mind at work in these 20 stories, nearly all remarkable, and many the kind that restore one's faith in humanity."
--Chicago Sun-Times "Dr. Sacks's most absorbing book. . . . His tales are so compelling that many of them serve as eerie metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine but of modern man"
--New York Magazine
"This book is for everybody who has felt from time to time that certain twinge of self-identity and sensed how easily, at any moment, one might lose it."
--The Times "Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist. His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness."
--The Guardian "Populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction . . . Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be."
--Sunday Times "Sacks explores neurological disorders with a novelist's skill and an appreciation of his patients as human beings."
--Publishers Weekly "Sensitive yet lively. . . . This book ranks with the very best of its genre. It will inform and entertain anyone, especially those who find medicine an intriguing and mysterious art."
--Kirkus Reviews
