cover image Wrestling with the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over Illness

Wrestling with the Angel: A Memoir of My Triumph Over Illness

Max Lerner. Touchstone Books, $14.95 (212pp) ISBN 978-0-671-74095-5

Lerner narrates and meditates on his survival of two bouts with cancer and a heart attack over a five-year period that began when he was 78. ``What distinguishes his account is the author's ability to summon up his psychic forces to engage in death-defying combat and, despite pain and physical debilitation, to continue writing and teaching,'' said PW . (Aug.)