pbRevised and ExpandedbppWith the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to iThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hati, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In iMusicophiliai, 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. Illuminating, inspiring, and utterly unforgettable, iMusicophiliai is Oliver Sacks' latest masterpiece.p