A Pocketful of Rye Author:A.J. Cronin Dr. Laurence Carroll is a familiar character to those who read and enjoyed A.J. Cronin's last book, A Song of Sixpence. He emerges again in A Pocketful of Rye - feckless, irreverent, living in the moment and squandering a not inconsiderable medical talent in a sinecural post in a small Swiss clinic. But the events which occur and the people th... more »at Dr. Carroll meets along the way serve to lead him back to himself, to the revelation of a truth, and to a surprising resolution - through roads never before imagined.« less