cover image Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time

Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time

Kathy Charmaz. Rutgers University Press, $23 (311pp) ISBN 978-0-8135-1967-8

Two American Studies professors show how the New Jersey Turnpike--that ``ugly icon,'' America's ``widest and most travelled'' road--has found its way into the minds, if not the hearts, of artists and drivers alike. (Feb.)