LETTERS

Dr. Sacks was a prodigious researcher, tireless clinician, voracious reader, indefatigable traveler, influential neurologist, and long-winded correspondent. The talented James Langton pays close attention to Sacks's English accent and British point of view. He seems to inhabit the great man's extraordinary mind. These revealing and erudite letters testify to Sacks's appetite for study, need to communicate, and insatiable yearning to solve problems. Addressed to famous people such as Jerome Bruner, Francis Crick, and Jonathan Miller, as well as former patients and his family, these missives present a kind of Rorschach test of the mind/brain/body relationships that so fascinated Sacks in his long career. His groundbreaking book and film, AWAKENINGS, and his essays are elucidated in these dispatches. A gratifying, if very long, listen. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2024]