{"product_id":"sacks-awakenings-1","title":"Sacks: Awakenings","description":"'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug, L-DOPA, which caused them, temporarily, to awake from their decades-long slumber. 'A brilliant and humane book' Observer 'Not only a collection of astonishing case histories, Awakenings is also a memoir, a moral essay and a romance. It is a work of genius' Washington Post  'It makes you aware of what a knife edge we live on' Doris Lessing","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55267494592899,"sku":"9780330523677N","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/e81f1871-66d4-4247-ba22-650267d424e8.jpg?v=1744025277","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/sacks-awakenings-1","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}