Awakenings

Book info: Awakenings (Hardcover, 249 pages – Doubleday, 1974) – Doubleday, 1974. Language: Eng.

Here is the movie tie-in edition of bestselling author Oliver Sachs' classic account of victims of a decades-long sleeping sickness who were "awoken" to a new life by the use of the drug L-Dopa. The film, directed by Penny Marshall and starring Robert DeNiro and Robin WIlliams, is scheduled for release in the fall of 1990. 8 pages of photos. $50,000.