It's Da Bomb: A psychiatrist's first novel stars an ecoterrorist.(BOOKS)(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)(Brief Article)

Publication: Newsweek

Publication Date: 23-JUL-01

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Peter D. Kramer's first novel, "Spectacular Happiness," sounds like a stinkeroo. Fiction isn't his metier: he's the psychiatrist whose "Listening to Prozac" and "Should You Leave?" showed a profound, agile intellect and a clear prose style, but no gift for daydreaming. Anyway, aren't shrinks and novelists natural enemies--the former...

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