Good Medicine Part 1

About the Book

It is 1967, and a singleminded scientist with a wife and infant daughter searches for a drug to treat heart disease. Outside in the streets, kids protest the Vietnam war, have sex, and trip out on LSD, and a young artist crippled by his father on a motorcycle does not go to Chicago to get tear-gassed at the Democratic Convention. Worse happens. To him, to his sister, and to the hippie girl he loves. Meanwhile, the scientist discovers his own heart disease and expects to die soon after his wife delivers their second child, a son.

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.