Sacks, Oliver — A Leg to Stand on

London, United Kingdom Picador Very Good in Very Good jacket 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. pp.168. While on holidays in Norway the author suffers a devastating injury to his left leg, rupturing the main tendon. In this book he describes with great evocative power his feeling of the leg's extinction, and of how its removal from the activity of the rest of his body seemed removed also from his own subjective body-image. clean tight copy, slight foxing, back cover lower part of surface ripped off. Very Good