Publisher's Synopsis
Sacks tells the stories of people who were able to communicate despite having lost abilities that we consider indispensable. People like Lilian, a pianist who still can distinguish between letters of the alphabet but can no longer read her music scores. Or Howard, a writer of detective novels who woke up one day to realise that everything he tried to read appeared in a language of incomprehensible symbols. Without delay Sacks becomes one with his patients, and speaks of the problems caused by his inherited incapacity to recognise faces.
