--- product_id: 20565267 title: "Gratitude" price: "EC$69" currency: XCD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://grenada.desertcart.com/products/20565267-gratitude store_origin: GD region: Grenada --- # Gratitude **Price:** EC$69 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Gratitude - **How much does it cost?** EC$69 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [grenada.desertcart.com](https://grenada.desertcart.com/products/20565267-gratitude) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death. “A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays….A lasting gift to readers." — The Washington Post “It is the fate of every human being,” Sacks writes, “to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life. “My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” —Oliver Sacks “Oliver Sacks was like no other clinician, or writer. He was drawn to the homes of the sick, the institutions of the most frail and disabled, the company of the unusual and the ‘abnormal.’ He wanted to see humanity in its many variants and to do so in his own, almost anachronistic way—face to face, over time, away from our burgeoning apparatus of computers and algorithms. And, through his writing, he showed us what he saw.” —Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal Review: A consummate storyteller writes the last chapter of his life. - A consummate storyteller of the human mind, author of the inspiring "Awakenings" and the whimsical "The Man Who Mistook His wife for a Hat," provides a final work peering into his own mind as an octogenarian facing imminent death. This brief set of essays is his most intimate storytelling, embodying the warmth of a gentle and always inquisitive soul. Reading this as I approach my own eightieth year of life, I found this a comforting model for approaching the last chapter of life against the panorama of its earlier chapters. I imagined him closing the book at the end of his read and setting it with satisfaction on the nightstand for others to find. Review: Life In Perspective - I attended a lecture by Dr. Oliver Sacks in Boston, 1989. Luckily enough, I was introduced to this amazing man. A year later when he was in San Francisco for a large speaking engagement on Migraines, I met him again. This time we had lunch in his private suite and never have I ever been so thrilled and felt so welcome. He was a gentle person with an ability to speak to anyone on any subject. I was so lucky. Just before his sad passing, I read his autobiography, “On The Move”. It truly portrayed his gentle, worldly, yet sophisticated self. I learned more about him then and was more intrigued and fascinated by his writings. “Gratitude” is a short read, but a succinct and gratifying one. Each of the four essays is carefully written with the Dr. Sacks earnest and honest soul baring itself with such honest emotion, it’s wonderful and satisfying to read. I’ve read it many times now and always marvel at his ability to easily convey his emotions and feelings. It’s a true gift and a gentle reminder to the reader that gratitude is very important and a great attribute to put things in perspective. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #161,854 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #96 in Death #110 in Medical Professional Biographies #172 in Essays (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 3,519 Reviews | ## Images ![Gratitude - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61coFFPc3WL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A consummate storyteller writes the last chapter of his life. *by R***R on June 22, 2026* A consummate storyteller of the human mind, author of the inspiring "Awakenings" and the whimsical "The Man Who Mistook His wife for a Hat," provides a final work peering into his own mind as an octogenarian facing imminent death. This brief set of essays is his most intimate storytelling, embodying the warmth of a gentle and always inquisitive soul. Reading this as I approach my own eightieth year of life, I found this a comforting model for approaching the last chapter of life against the panorama of its earlier chapters. I imagined him closing the book at the end of his read and setting it with satisfaction on the nightstand for others to find. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Life In Perspective *by M***N on September 4, 2016* I attended a lecture by Dr. Oliver Sacks in Boston, 1989. Luckily enough, I was introduced to this amazing man. A year later when he was in San Francisco for a large speaking engagement on Migraines, I met him again. This time we had lunch in his private suite and never have I ever been so thrilled and felt so welcome. He was a gentle person with an ability to speak to anyone on any subject. I was so lucky. Just before his sad passing, I read his autobiography, “On The Move”. It truly portrayed his gentle, worldly, yet sophisticated self. I learned more about him then and was more intrigued and fascinated by his writings. “Gratitude” is a short read, but a succinct and gratifying one. Each of the four essays is carefully written with the Dr. Sacks earnest and honest soul baring itself with such honest emotion, it’s wonderful and satisfying to read. I’ve read it many times now and always marvel at his ability to easily convey his emotions and feelings. It’s a true gift and a gentle reminder to the reader that gratitude is very important and a great attribute to put things in perspective. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lovely farewell from a lovely man *by P***N on May 22, 2016* I usually love Oliver Sacks' books, most dealing with his adventures as a neurologist. My favorite remains, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." That volume includes a personal recollection by Sacks himself, dealing with when he woke in hospital and tried to throw the seeming foreign leg out of his bed, only to learn that it was his own! He was a masterful real-life story-teller. For some reason I just can't put my finger on, I found this final reflection to be a bit lacking. Certainly what the other reviewers have said in praise of it are true, but it still left me feeling something was missing. In reflecting, what I found was missing was that in the midst of his four essays, all remembrances of things past, he really does not emphasize his gratitude. It is more like he was saying, "Well, this happened and it changed my life." But as an existential-phenomenologist, I guess I was looking more for what Sacks meant by "gratitude." He never really does say. Still, it is a lovely farewell from a very interesting and gifted man, for whose life and contributions I am grateful. 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