The Double Bond: The Life of Primo Levi

"[Carole Angier's DOUBLE BOND], sometimes more imagined reconstruction than biography, is remarkable and for the most part totally convincing. For long passages, her book is hard to put down....The pull between the biographer's job as revealer, and Angier's own instinct to protect and not expose a man she grew very fond of, clearly caused her painful thought....Perhaps the greatest strength of Carole Angier's marvellous, if speculative, book is that she shows us not just a very moral figure and an exceptional writer..., but an ordinary man, tormented, self-effacing, ironic, loving....Carole Angier is the author of 'The Double Bond: The Life of Primo Levi', published 2003 under ISBN 9780374528980 and ISBN 0374528985.