The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985) by Oliver Sacks — Picador edition
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Step into the curious, compassionate, and at times confounding world of neurological oddities in Oliver Sacks’ groundbreaking classic, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. First published in 1985, this Picador edition brings together a series of real-life case studies that read like surreal short stories, featuring patients whose minds behave in extraordinary and bewildering ways.

From the title case of a man unable to distinguish his wife from a hat, to tales of memory loss, phantom limbs, and musical savants, Sacks combines the clinical with the deeply human. His writing is as insightful as it is empathetic, making this a cult favourite for readers of psychology, medicine, and the just plain weird.

It’s worn, it’s yellowed, and it might smell a bit like the 1980s—but that’s how we like it at Crappy Old Books. Ideal for lovers of battered brilliance and brain-bending reads.

Neat condition.

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