Uncle Tungsten : memories of a chemical boyhood
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
ISBN
9780375704048, 0375704043
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.7 - AR Pts: 25
Status
Adult Biography (3rd floor)
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
Format
Book
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780375704048, 0375704043
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 10.7, 25 Points
Level 10.7, 25 Points
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother, who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection, and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his "Uncle Tungsten," whose factory produces tungsten-filament light bulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes, in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sacks, O. (2002). Uncle Tungsten: memories of a chemical boyhood (First Vintage Books edition.). Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. 2002. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Vintage Books, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sacks, Oliver. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood First Vintage Books edition., Vintage Books, 2002.
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