Teaches the fine art of giving and receiving great back rubs that offers a respite from life's stresses and responsibilities. Hundreds of tailored backrubs to fit the mood and situation. Funky illustrations! Paperback 161 pages Vintage Books, 1989 Good Used Condition with minor discoloration on back cover Anne Kent Rush, a descendant of Dr. Benjamin Rush, an American health revolutionary who signed the Declaration of Independence, was born in Mobile, Alabama. She is the author of The Back Rub Book; Getting Clear: Body Work for Women; Moon, Moon; The Basic Back Book; co-author of Feminism as Therapy; and illustrator of The Massage Book. Rush was on the training staffs of Alyssum Center and of Esalen Institute in California, was a partner in Moon Books, and has taught in the U. S. and Europe. She wrote and illustrated Greta Bear Goes to Yellowstone National Park, the first in a series of children's travel books on wildlife conservation.