Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain -- Oliver Sacks, Paperback Self-Help This book is at once

This book is at once a coming-of-age story

America was cold and swampy

Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel

Its skin can be read as a description of an ancient desert

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain -- Oliver Sacks, Paperback Self-Help This book is at onceNATIONAL BESTSELLER With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. "Powerful and compassionate. . . . A book that not only contributes to our understanding of the elusive magic of music but also illuminates the strange workings, and misfirings, of the human mind." The New York Times In