Samenvatting
Samenvatting
Revised and ExpandedWith 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.Specificaties
Specificaties
ISBN
9781400033539
Vorm
Paperback
Uitgever
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Druk
1e
Verschenen
01-01-2008
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
448 pp.
Genre
Psychologie
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