Volume 49, Number 13 · August 15, 2002
Secrets of Primo Levi
By Alexander Stille
The Double Bond: Primo Levi
by Carole Angier
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 898 pp., $40.00
Primo Levi
by Ian Thomson
London: Hutchinson, 624 pp., £25.00
More than ten years ago, two writers, Carole Angier and Ian Thomson, one American, the other British, were each commissioned to write a biography of Primo Levi, who died, an apparent suicide, in 1987. In a race against time and against each other, they set about tracking down the rapidly dwindling number of octogenarian and nonagenarian relatives, old schoolmates, family friends, and the survivors with whom Levi had been interned at Auschwitz.
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