To these seven narratives of neurological disorder Dr. Sacks brings the same hum
anity, poetic observation, and infectious sense of wonder that are apparent in h
is bestsellers Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. These men,
women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities
, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into anothe
r reality.