{"product_id":"9781400033539","title":"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat\u003c\/i\u003e, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMusicophilia\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows us a variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.” Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds-for everything but music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42371028877373,"sku":"9781400033539","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781400033539_p0.jpg?v=1775615855","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781400033539","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}