{"product_id":"uncle-tungsten-memories-of-a-chemical-boyhood","title":"Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the 14-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 lightbulbs. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUncle 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54015823905136,"sku":"978-0613708715","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":54015823937904,"sku":"978-0613708715","price":30.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_6924_e6cfbc97ae.jpg?v=1783669651","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/uncle-tungsten-memories-of-a-chemical-boyhood","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}