Good Medicine Part 2

About the Book

This book of the acrophilic mid-1970s begins with Dr Herschel Bluestein still suffering an uneven heartbeat and losing faith when the drug he has discovered allays a colleague’s coronary disease in secret experiments yet winds up ambiguously when the man dies from other causes. After Bluestein’s infant son almost dies, his wife Barbara acquires a lover, and so does he. Cathy and Timothy, the young hippie couple in Part 1, decline with their time in rejection and punishment but transfuse their rebellious attitudes and faith into Herschel, rewarding him very well by the end of the book for refusing to suffer.

About the Author

Arnold Wohl has held many of the typical no-account jobs forced by the United States of Amnesia on its writers. In trying to follow his calling, he has done stints as a carpenter’s assistant, a short-order cook, a carnival roustabout, a French chef (in France), a medical research scientist, a demolition worker, a telemarketer, a stevedore, a street guitarist, a software engineer, and an adjunct professor of English. He is a practicing astrologer, and a father of three. His short story Manicheans is on-line in Crania, #6. Others of his works are in print (Rattapallax, Number One; And Then, Volume 9). An earlier novel, Compromises (1977), dealt in part with what is now called Mad Cow Disease. Good Training Part 1 and Good Training Part 2 (coming soon) comprise Panel One in the triptych, The Kind of Life That Was Being Lived.