Sliver A Novel

Ira Levin is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel; in terms of plot, he makes what the rest of us do look like those five-dollar watches you can buy at discount drugstores ... Mr. Levin, who wove his jittery, compelling magic in such novels as Rosemary's basby, the stepford wives, and the boys from brazil, has in sliver created the apartment dwellers worst nightmare.