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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
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 23 september 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9781400033539 |
Uitgevers | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Pagina's | 448 |
Afmetingen | 202 × 132 × 35 mm · 471 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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