Wrestling With The Angel
Wrestling With The Angel
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Max Lerner, a veteran of journalism, history, and the human sciences, once said, "Life comes to us whole and asks to be grasped whole." And that is exactly what he does in this impassioned narrative of a life-threatening encounter that began when he was seventy-eight, with two successive cancers and a heart attack.
Lerner's experience was embedded in the support system of a large, cohesive family, bolstered by the care and compassion of skilled doctors. But he discovered that command of life belongs to the patient. Journal entries from that time give the memoir a molten immediacy; reflections from the present enrich the narrative, showing how mind and body interweave in healing and self-healing.
Turning to the BOOK OF GENESIS, where Jacob wrestles with the Angel of God, the author finds his embracing metaphor. His story---told with vigor, indeed with exuberance---teaches lessons learned from a good fight.
