"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time." –
The Washington Post "Compulsively readable. . . . Dr. Sacks writes beautifully and with exceptional subtlety and penetration into both the state of mind of his patients and the nature of illness generally. . . . A brilliant and humane book." –A. Alvarez,
The Observer "[Sacks] opens to the reader doors of perception generally passed through only by those at the far borders of human experience." –
The Boston Globe "A masterpiece." –W. H. Auden