October 24, 6pm

From Oliver Sacks - the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time - comes Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, an account of Sacks's youth, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories. In this wonderful memoir, he evokes his childhood in wartime England with wit and warmth; the narrative radiates the magic and delight of a young boy's unquenchable desire for knowledge.

Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway. 6PM. Tickets available at Harvard Book Store.

credit: Rosalie Winard

A. A. Knopf Oct 2001, hc $25.00

Other books by Oliver Sacks:

• Awakenings
• An Anthropologist on Mars
• Migraine
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
• A Leg to Stand on
• Seeing Voices
• Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter's Life with Autism
• Seeing Voices