{"product_id":"awakenings","title":"Awakenings","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eand their return to the world after decades of \"sleep.\" - From the distinguished neurologist and the bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAwakenings--\u003c\/i\u003ewhich inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, \"awakening\" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47994844446909,"sku":"BS-TC0-704055","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0771\/9767\/2637\/files\/9780375704055-HD.jpg?v=1786740149","url":"https:\/\/boundigo.com\/products\/awakenings","provider":"Boundigo Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}