The Double Bond: The Life of Primo Levi
By Carole Angier.
Description
One of the most eagerly awaited biographies of recent years: a searching life of the great Italian writer and witness to the HolocaustPerhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi spent sixty-five of his sixty-seven years in Turin, Italy, where he worked as a chemist by day and wrote at night in a study that had been his childhood bedroom. Thanks to his memoirs, which include Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and the classic The Periodic Table, he became widely known and loved as a supremely moral man, one who had transmuted the agonies of persecution i...
ISBN(s)
0374113157, 9780374113155
