The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Condition:Like New Seventeen (novella

Seventeen (novella

and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a mother who never seemed to care for her

but also work hard to generate and sustain the interest of readers

as well as "The Beach of Fales�" and Stevenson's previously uncollected stories

like I was up on a wire without a net

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Condition:Like New Seventeen (novellaIn his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr Sacks'