"Levine is a true artist, who grinds his bonesand anything else he can get his hands onto make his bread." The Sunday Times Reminiscent of Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick, Norman Levines short fiction was largely ignored in his lifetime. Yet they remain some of the most skillfully-crafted and moving works of the last half of the twentieth century. Taken together, these stories make a convincing argument for Levines mastery, and as a writer in need of urgent rediscovery.
