Letters
Thousands of letters across fifty years, showing the obscurity, the motorcycles and a warmth Sacks kept out of his published work.
Five decades of correspondence, selected from thousands of letters Sacks wrote to family, colleagues, patients and friends. They show the working life behind the essays, including the long years of obscurity, the motorcycle trips, and a warmth that he kept mostly out of his published prose.
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Maria Popova
When he reluctantly returned to New York, Oliver set about trying to bridge the abyss of physical absence by rendering his world alive in words, composing some of the greatest love letters I have read. In one of the treasures collected in his posthumously published Letters (public library), he writes:
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