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The Wrestler from Montreal is a pulsing theatre where the agents of heaven and hell make its stage their unforgiving battlefield. This is the story of a heritage delivered by a mother to her two very young sons in the last hours of her life. It is a heritage which man could not modify, time could not temper, and the expanse of oceans could not distance from their lives. A saga that begins at the turn of the last century in Eastern Europe it moves at breakneck speed touching extremes in human virtues and vices. Yet alongside the most impossible cruelties it could look at the world through a comic's eyes.

And where the saga ends the mind of the reader will carry on. This is a work destined to be remembered as literature for the ages.



from KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Holtzman creates a believably troubled protagonist, caught in the web of his own destiny.
An engaging read ..."

from STANLEY NEMIROFF
Professor of Philosophy (retired)
McGill University
"The ever- hovering prophetic and allegorical dimensions of the novel evoke reflections
on fate and destiny. The Wrestler succeeds as both an enjoyable and a thought-provoking
work. A very good read!"

from ALIBRIS BOOKS/Review
"...Mordecai Richler on steroids. "...explosive""

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"A saga that riveted my attention from the first line to the last."
...carries well beyond simple entertainment."

from NANCY EATON
Literary Reviewer
BooksellersWorld
"This is a moving story about the power of a mother’s heritage left to her young children,
the bond of two brothers and the struggle it took to survive. ...an excellent job of character
portrayal. It ranks way up there with the best I have read so far this year."

About the author

After graduating college in Montreal, Arnold moved to Israel where he established a rose nursery devoted to hybridizing new garden varieties. All the roses originating in Israel and registered with the International Rose Registry Authority are his creations.

Eventually he returned to academic studies earning a Ph.D in Health and Human Services. He developed an award winning discipline in psychological diagnosis extending from the medical-genetic science of Dermatoglyphics. Two textbooks he had written on the subject were published in Toronto. The first, appearing in 1983, became a collector's item. The second, published in 2004, is reaching his pupils in close to 80 countries.

Writing remains the author's central activity. He speaks of The Wrestler from Montreal as his richest creative experience - a salute to a generation once so vocal now so silent.

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We live in a world of secrets

Fate and Destiny touch every life. There are those who would fight them and those who would flow with them. The first promises a life of struggle and despair, the second a life of fulfillment. What of predestination? What of those who can see into the history of the future? How far removed is premonition from prophecy? Not always is learning the source of knowledge. Not always does defeat equate with failure. Not always does success equate with fulfillment. Sometimes a fate of chronic disappointments is the precursor of a destiny rich with significance. Just as often the reverse is true. Life has its secrets. And these secrets have their singular patterns - not so much waiting to be discovered as waiting to be realized.

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Holtzman, Arnold
THE WRESTLER FROM MONTREAL: Prophecy for a Separate Man
Infinity (378 pp.)
$18.95
ISBN: 978-0-7414-4028-0

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The upper photo is with the kind permission of the McCord Museum, Montreal, PQ. Canada