cover image AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge

AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Collier Books, $7 (329pp) ISBN 978-0-02-059001-9

In an unfocused collection of essays, personal testimonies, interview transcripts and other material, Kubler-Ross writes (or compiles) here from the point of view that the AIDS epidemic has been visited upon the human race as a pre-Second Coming test of mankind's spiritual mettle--the `ultimate challenge' of the title. PW found this to be ``a strange and disappointing book.'' (Oct.)