Awakenings (Audiobook) By Oliver Sacks, read by Jonathan Davis
Unabridged edition 2013 | 13 hours and 8 minutes | ISBN: 1480530379 | MP3 64 kbps | 361 MB
Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.
"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." (The Washington Post)
PLEASE NOTE: Some changes have been made to the original manuscript with the permission of Oliver Sacks.
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