Word: medusa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Book, Bombeck (5) 4. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady (3) 5. The Right Stuff, Wolfe (6) 6. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (4) 7. Cruel Shoes, Martin (7) 8. Energy Future, edited by Stobaugh & Yergin 9. Serpentine, Thompson 10. The Medusa and the Snail, Thomas...
...Medusa and the Snail, Thomas
...Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas...
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff∙ The Intricate Music, Thomas Kiernan∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙Zebra, Clark Howard
Unlike Lives of a Cell, here Thomas writes what he feels like writing, disallowing any overall structure for the book. But taken one at a time, Medusa reveals Thomas as a gifted humorist, moralist, psychiatrist and critic. Thomas has no poses, no axes to grind, and so he remains humane, candid and optimistic...