Rusty Rubin

Off the Canvas: a Tale of Two Brothers Rusty Rubin

Fast moving and guaranteed toevoke all emotions, the nine chapters of Offthe Canvas takes the reader from the depths of the Great Depression,through the days of segregation and Jim Crow, then into World War II and to theevents of today. These are the recollections ofTony Petrovic, former middleweight champion of theworld. At that time there was just eight divisions and one sanctioning body,and his brother Billy, a welterweight champion, The book describstheir rise to the top of the boxing world, only to have Billy gunned down by aracist assassin. Off the Canvas will provoke laughter, tears, anger, hate andunderstanding. It is a work of fiction that is so historically correct, itactually could have happened. Although historically correct, Off the Canvas is a fictionalizedaccount of two brothers, whose lives are intertwined until the tragic death ofBilly, the younger of the two. We are taken through this historyand these events by older brother, Tony Petrovic,who, at age 80, doesn't recall as well as he should, but is able to expresshimself in such a way that once into Offthe Canvas the reader will not want to put down this novel till itscompletion.