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...pages; $17.95), charges that Americans "don't live exuberantly but apprehensively, as if our bodies are dormant adversaries, programmed for betrayal at any moment." Another broadside comes from University of Connecticut Sociologist Barry Glassner in Bodies: Why We Look the Way We Do (And How We Feel About It) (Putnam; 288 pages; $19.95). Glassner takes America to task for creating a culture in which people are perpetually dissatisfied with the way they look and miserable about the way they feel. "All our efforts to beautify and condition our bodies," he writes, "have not made us, as a nation, any happier...
...York: G.P. Putnam's Sons...
There are, of course, other victims: intravenous-drug users, prostitutes, infants condemned in the wombs of diseased mothers, and patients who received tainted blood transfusions. This last category provides the subject of one of the first AIDS novels, Alice Hoffman's At Risk (Putnam; 219 pages; $17.95), a suburban drama about an eleven-year-old schoolgirl gymnast who is inadvertently doomed during a routine appendectomy...
Jonathan F. Putnam...
...Putnam was co-sports editor of The Crimson from February of 1986 until January of 1987. He plans to live in Baltimore this summer and cheer on the Orioles...