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The setting for Times Of Plums is a college campus in 1971. Carlo Cappogia, 'Yago' to his friends, returns to finish his senior year after a one-year suspension for leading the takeover of the Administration building. He finds that things have changed, values shifted. It is the cusp of a different era, where idealism is being replaced by pragmatism. This is never more clear than in the build-up to the climatic anti-war march in San Francisco. This novel about the end of the sixties captures the speech and sense of urgency, that mix of depth and silliness, the quotidian hippity-hop which...

This novel offers an intimate look at mental health care, the profession as well as the process itself. The reader can see how therapeutic concepts are tailored to meet a wide range of issues. Dominic Picorelli, a thirty-four year old psychotherapist from Los Angeles, has recently married and moved to Seattle. His wife, Norah, a surgical nurse, is hired at one of the big hospitals downtown, and he gets a job at a private psychiatric hospital in a rural setting at the north end of Lake Washington. Dominic and Norah are delighted with their new home, including the weather. Free time is spent...

An eventful ramble by two vagabonds at the outset of the nineteenth century, which takes them from the war of 1812 in the New World to the battle of Waterloo, followed by refuge in an isolated Belgian monastery, and finally to one of the first mental health hospitals in England.