Released on = June 1, 2007, 7:56 am

Press Release Author = Stacey J. Miller/S. J. Miller Communications

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = Arthur Rosenfeld's new novel, \"The Cutting Season\" (YMAA
Publication Center, 2007), brings the most popular category of Asian fiction to
American shores for the first time.

Press Release Body = Millions of martial arts fans will now have their day, as will
the even greater number of Americans who love a great literary action hero. Of
course, fans of the medical thriller have a treat in store, as do readers who enjoy
the supernatural, the murder mystery, spirituality, and a good old fashioned
vigilante tale.

All these dimensions are in full flower in Arthur Rosenfeld's new novel The Cutting
Season (YMAA Publication Center, 2007), the first book in a planned series that
brings the most popular category of Asian fiction to these shores for the first
time.

In his novel, Rosenfeld introduces Dr. Xenon Pearl, the crack South Florida
neurosurgeon who finds all he has trained and worked for in jeopardy when the child
of a local mafia boss dies on his surgical table. Spurred by the specter of his
deceased martial arts teacher, Pearl uses his medical training to exact justice. His
credo becomes: "Do no harm . Honor your teacher . Cut without mercy .." The story
involves mysticism, reincarnation, betrayal, romance, organized crime, communication
with the dead, Jewish/Chinese culture, motorcycles, and medicine.

A martial arts master whose training spans over twenty-five years, and a
critically-acclaimed and widely-published novelist, Rosenfeld's ground-breaking
transplantation of this important exotic genre explores human conflict, desires, and
the search for moral certainties to the United States. "The Cutting Season is the
culmination of all my experience as a writer and as a martial arts expert. I've
written it to answer the burgeoning interest in Asian themes, spirituality, and
martial arts."


The Cutting Season
By Arthur Rosenfeld
YMAA Fiction
www.thecuttingseason.com
ISBN: 978-1-59439-082-1
$21.95
June 2007

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Web Site = http://www.thecuttingseason.com

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