An Anthropologist on Mars

Seven Paradoxical Tales

Recommended by Alexandra Horowitz, and 1 others. See all reviews

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Paradoxical portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds new creative power in black & white; & others. less

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