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Praise for Monk Yun Rou’s Books
Turtle Planet
“Turtles have been a part of Earth’s natural balance for hundreds of millions of years. Now, human greed and indifference bring them to the very brink of extinction. In this passionate, shining work, Yun Rou champions their cause and indicts our self-destructive relationship with Mother Earth.”
—William Holmstrom, Wildlife Conservation Society
“This beautiful, imaginative, and important work reminds us that turtles, unchanged for 200 million years, have been a cornerstone of folklore and religion since before recorded history. If we can come to see the threats facing them today, as Yun Rou has done here, then we can begin to repair what we have done.”
—Anthony Pierlioni, Vice President and Senior Director, theTurtleRoom
A Cure for Gravity
“[A] charming tale…. There’s a bravura innocence at the heart of this offbeat novel.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“A touching ghost story that eludes easy comparison to any other book. An amazing, rewarding voyage…. No need to imitate other writers; Rosenfeld is a true original.”
—Booklist
“A zesty, comic, high-speed American gothic.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A Cure for Gravity is the kind of stunning surprise that comes along once a year, if we’re lucky. It’s like expecting a $90 bicycle for Christmas, and getting a brand new Harley instead…. It will be the rare reader who turns the last page without a lump in his throat and a smile on his lips.”
—Florida Sun Sentinel
“[An] unusual yarn [that] intrigues and grips…doesn’t let up until the last page.”
—Barbara Taylor Bradford, New York Times bestselling author
“This wonderful novel doesn’t just cure gravity, it cures all matters of heart, mind, and soul. I felt better after reading the title alone; imagine how I felt after reading the whole book.”
—Neil Simon, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of The Odd Couple, Lost in Yonkers, and more.
“Rosenfeld uses the tangle of lives he has created to tell a story that has its mystical moments—but is every bit about the needs of the living. This makes it a love story, of course, and a sweet, telling one at that.”
—The New York Daily News
“A Cure for Gravity may be seen as mainstream fiction that just happens to be fast, funny, outrageous, and full of heart.”
—The Mercury News, San Jose, CA
“A Cure for Gravity roars along at the pace of an open-throttled motorcycle.”
—The Tribune, South Bend, IN
“With A Cure for Gravity, Mr. Rosenfeld inspires the deepest emotion one writer can feel about another: envy.”
—Larry Gelbart, creator of M*A*S*H, Tootsie, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and more.
“A novel of surprising imagination and stylistic daring….A Cure for Gravity rises to near greatness as a piece of home-grown Magical Realism. Touching, scary, hilarious.”
—Knight Ridder News Service
“This book is like reading a story and listening to music at the same time. A page-turner with rhythm, and a most unusual narrative voice. I loved the characters, the views of an America I haven’t seen, the unexpected twists and turns. A wonderful book.”
—Jack Paar, former host of The Tonight Show
“Arthur Rosenfeld’s A Cure for Gravity is a noir mystery, a supernatural thriller, a crime caper novel, a love story, and an American road-trip adventure—all seamlessly woven into one moving, magical book. If the ghosts of Jack Kerouac and Jim Thompson could collaborate with Alice Hoffman, this is the story they might write…. This novel twists, spins, and rages like an Oklahoma tornado, and it’ll fling you up into the cruel sky before bringing you back down to the good earth…safe, but shaken. Hell, it’ll make you fly.”
—Bradley Denton, author of Blackburn and Lunatics
Diamond Eye
“This is, to put it bluntly, one of the freshest, most enjoyable mysteries to come along in the last couple of years…. Any novel that features people with names like Seagrave Chunny, Phayle Tollard, and Twy Boatright is a novel that practically demands to be read…. The plot is delightfully twisty, turny, and, at times, surprisingly thought provoking.”
—Booklist, starred review
“A great read in the noir tradition.”
—Cluesunlimited.com
“Diamond Eye is a special delivery, no doubt about that. Refreshingly different. With its wit, warmth, and wonderfully wild cast, Rosenfeld dexterously blends cinematic scenes with intricate, often humorous personality studies in what may be this year’s most promising detective series introduction. Hey, who knew that detective fiction could benefit from going postal?”
—January Magazine
“Rosenfeld writes a muscular prose that moves along at a brisk clip.”
—Florida Sun-Sentinel
“Exploring cop-struggling-against-criminal-desire themes hauntingly reminiscent of Hammett’s Red Harvest, Rosenfeld crafts a high-action suspense thriller with plenty of wry humor and cultural commentary.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“Rosenfeld’s likeable detective has a genuine disgust for the felons that he pursues and the determination necessary to bring them to justice.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Rosenfeld skillfully weaves a complex plot that defies solution until the very last pages. In the process, he creates an urbane, life-loving, self-effacing, and courageous character who should forever dispel the erroneous image of ‘lowly’ postal inspectors.”
—The Boca Raton/Delray Beach News
“Rosenfeld keeps things moving smartly even before the nifty twist that ties his two plots together into a neat, grisly bow.”
—Kirkus Reviews
The Cutting Season
“Arthur Rosenfeld’s The Cutting Season is a marvelously entertaining blend of many different genres: medical thriller, psychological suspense, fantasy, martial arts adventure, romance, and crime drama, all neatly packaged into three hundred engrossing pages.”
—Mostlyfiction.com
“Highly recommended, and not just for martial artists. This is a well written story that all will enjoy.”
—Larry Ketchersid, author of Dusk Before Dawn
“It takes a bold author to attempt the creation of a new category of popular fiction. That’s the task crime novelist and tai chi master Arthur Rosenfeld set himself with his ninth novel, The Cutting Season.”
—Florida Sun-Sentinel
“A gripping story…a page-turning mystery…. Rosenfeld’s medical knowledge and martial-arts expertise reinforce an authority and clarity to the work…. That’s storytelling!”
—Walter Anderson, Chairman and CEO of Parade Magazine
“….lively, accurate, and beautiful writing…[this] secret world of blades…[is] brimming with romance, mysticism, and murder. It’s the rare writer who can hold my interest so intensely.”
—Dellana, Master Bladesmith
“A brain surgeon swordsman battles with…Russian mobsters, and his own reincarnations. This smart thriller sets a refreshing new standard for martial arts fiction.”
—Kung Fu Magazine
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