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

After reading this book I made some severe life changes. I have begun to live, and explore my world. Do you know how glorious a sunset can be, and that there will never be two identical sunsets? This is just one slight example of the brilliance and sense of life that Lerner provides his reader with. To hear an eighty year old man speak of living, and continuing to learn from others, not to mention setting goals for himself, makes the average human cringe with guilt for laying around the house. This book inspires even the most unobservant, unmoved person to go out and "suck the marrow out of life." (Thoreau)

Max Lerner writes with great insights and litererary skills about dealing with life threatening illness, in his case cancer at a late stage in life.However, the basic insights are applicable to any age, and any serious illness.This is an important and beautifully written book.

This book is an account of an elderly man (over 70) with several kinds of cancer. He has two sons. One a medical doctor. One is a nutritionist. The author discusses his use of both methods to treat the illness. I am over 40. I have given this book to every parent of any friend who has been diagnosed with cancer later in life. They have all been grateful. Mr. Lerner is not a Christian, I am. His spirituality is his own. Lerner provides some useful practical infromation about fighting cancer in later life. He method was a success. He lived through it.