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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Revised & Enlarged edition
Oliver Sacks
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Revised & Enlarged edition
Oliver Sacks
Revised and Expanded
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. 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 music. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, Musicophilia is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.
448 pages
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 23 septembre 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9781400033539 |
Éditeurs | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Pages | 448 |
Dimensions | 202 × 132 × 35 mm · 471 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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