My life with Oliver Sacks: 'He was the most unusual person I had ever known', Oliver Sacks
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In this extract from his memoir, Bill Hayes, partner of Oliver Sacks, recalls the neurologist’s unworldly charm, their remarkable stay with Björk in Iceland, and the dignity of Sacks’s final weeks
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