Hardcover, 64 pages
Published Nov. 24, 2015 by Knopf Canada, Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A..
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published Nov. 24, 2015 by Knopf Canada, Knopf Incorporated, Alfred A..
"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect of old age and the freedom he envisioned for himself in binding together the thoughts and feelings of a lifetime. Eighteen months later, he was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer--which he announced publically in another piece in The New York Times. Gratitude is Sacks's meditation on why life [continued] to enthrall him even as he [faced] the all-too-close presence of his own death, and how to live out the months that [remained] in the richest and deepest way possible"--