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Can I read Awakenings on EtoBox?
Awakenings by Sacks, Oliver, 1933- is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Awakenings about?
This is the extraordinary account of a group of 20 patients, survivors of the great sleeping-sickness epidemic which swept the world in the 1920s, and the astonishing, explosive "awakening" effect they experienced 40 years later through a new drug L-DOPA administered by Dr Sacks. The stories he tells of these remarkable individuals are moving, often courageous and sometimes tragic. Through them he also explores the most general questions of health, disease, suffering, care and the human condition.
Who reads Awakenings?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-
- Publisher
- New York: E. P. Dutton
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525483502
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (76 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (2013)
- Awakenings (1990)
- L'éveil (2018)
- Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (1999)
- Awakenings - Zeit des Erwachens : das Buch zum Film (1995)
- Awakenings Now a Major Film starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams (1996)
- Awakenings (1976)
- Risvegli (1995)
- Oliver Sacks 3 Books Collection Set (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Hallucinations, Awakenings) (2011)
- Awakenings [Das Buch zum Film] = Zeit des Erwachens (2002)
- Awakenings Now a Major Film starring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams (1991)
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