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Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood,Used
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From the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our timea riveting memoir of his youth and his love affair with science, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories.A rare gem. Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and toughminded. The New York Times Book ReviewLong before Oliver Sacks became the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings, he was a small English boy fascinated by metalsalso by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, Sacks chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteenyearold Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his Uncle Tungsten, whose factory produces tungstenfilament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroesin his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.
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