On the Move : A Life by Oliver Sacks

On the Move : A Life by Oliver SacksWhen Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug

combines sacred geometrical designs to create images that soothe and relax the mind

word spreads about the mysterious Evie

A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy

– he’s not there

Weaving together neuroscience and psychology with interviews

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp

is caught up in the whirlwind

is a headstrong and smart woman

* A woman remembers fights that a man insists never happened

Life will never be the same

make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining

The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks's studio for his life-drawing class