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Name: Uncle Tungsten
Full title: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
Author: Oliver Sacks
Year: 2001
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Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Memoirs

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Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize for Nonfiction in 2002.

In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft ten-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning. Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind.
This book is part of the "Oliver Sacks' memoirs" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
On the Move
First published 2015
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