| 词条 | Awakenings (book) |
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| name = Awakenings | title_orig = | translator = | image = Awakenings (Oliver Sacks book).jpg | alt = Front cover: black background, title above author's name, below author's name is quote from Frank Kermode, "This doctor's report... is written in a prose of such beauty that you might well look in vain for its equal among living practitioners of belles lettres." | caption = Front cover of first UK edition, Duckworth & Co., 1973[1] | author = Oliver Sacks | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = Neurology, psychology | genre = Case history | publisher = Duckworth & Co., 1973 Pelican, 1976 Picador, 1991, 2006, 2010 | pub_date = 1973, revised 1976 and 1991 | media_type = | pages = 408 (First Edition) | isbn = 0-375-70405-1 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = 21910570 | preceded_by = Migraine (1970) | followed_by = A Leg to Stand On (1984)}} Awakenings is a 1973 non-fiction book by Oliver Sacks. It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at the Beth Abraham Hospital (now Beth Abraham Health Services) in the Bronx, New York. The treatment used the then-new drug L-DOPA. In 1982, Sacks wrote: {{Quote |I have become much more optimistic than I was when I […] wrote Awakenings, for there has been a significant number of patients who, following the vicissitudes of their first years on L-DOPA, came to do – and still do – extremely well. Such patients have undergone an enduring awakening, and enjoy possibilities of life which had been impossible, unthinkable, before the coming of L-DOPA.[3]}}The book inspired the 1982 play A Kind of Alaska by Harold Pinter, performed as part of a trilogy of Pinter's plays titled Other Places, and a documentary television episode, the pilot of the British television programme Discovery. It was also made into a 1990 Oscar-nominated film, Awakenings starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. The 1976 edition of the book is dedicated to the memory of poet W. H. Auden, and bears an extract from Auden's 1969 poem The Art of Healing: {{Quote |Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing Nature.' Prior to his 1973 death, Auden himself wrote: "Have read the book and think it a masterpiece".[4] In 1974 the book won the Hawthornden Prize. [5][6] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://biblio.co.uk/book/awakenings-sacks-oliver/d/7930468691973 |title=Awakenings by Sacks, Oliver |date=2015 |accessdate=30 August 2015 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 2. ^{{Citation | first = Fiona | last = MacCarthy | authorlink=Fiona MacCarthy |newspaper = The Times | date = 5 December 1985 | title = Travels round a couch}} 3. ^{{Citation | publisher = Amazon | url = https://www.amazon.com/Awakenings-Oliver-Sacks/dp/0375704051 | title = Awakenings | first = Oliver | last = Sacks}} 4. ^Sacks, O. (1976), Awakenings, Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, back cover blurb 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Hawthornden+Prize|title=Hawthornden Prize - Book awards - LibraryThing|website=www.librarything.com|accessdate=2 May 2018}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/hawthornden.htm|title=Hawthornden Prize|website=web.mnstate.edu|accessdate=2 May 2018}} External links
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