《Letters 奧利佛．薩克斯書信選》收錄薩克斯跨越一生、超過半世紀的珍貴書信，對象涵蓋知名學者、藝術家與普通讀者。從弗朗西斯．克里克、珍．古德、比約克，到素不相識、寫信詢問病症的普通人，薩克斯始終以誠懇溫和的語氣回應，展現他對人性的關注與醫學的好奇。他在信中分享年輕時追求認同的掙扎，也坦白談論作為醫師、作家與同志的生命經歷。這些書信不僅見證他的思想歷程，更呈現他幽默、敏銳又不失溫柔的一面。透過這本書，我們得以窺見一位不安於室、熱愛探索人類心智的醫師與思想者。'Oliver Sacks’s Letters isn’t a book of the year – it’s a book for a lifetime . . . Keep this by your side, dip into it, be reminded of the wonders of our shared humanity' – Erica Wagner, 'Books of the year 2024', New StatesmanA New Yorker and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024Oliver Sacks, one of the great humanists of our age – who describes himself in these pages as a ‘philosophical physician’ and an ‘astronomer of the inward’ – wrote to an eclectic array of family and friends. Most were scientists, artists, and writers, even statesmen: Francis Crick, Antonio Damasio, Jane Goodall, W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Stephen Jay Gould, Björk, and his first cousin, Abba Eban. But many of the most eloquent letters in this collection are addressed to the ordinary p
