Sliver - Ira Levin Audiobook

Written by Ira Levin
Read by Soneela Nankani
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: June 24, 2014
Duration: 06:42:24

Kay Norris, a successful single woman of thirty-nine, moves into the posh Carnegie Hill district of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, into an apartment in a slender high rise, a “sliver” building.

A man watches her. He watches her unpack, watches her make her bed. He owns the building; a shocking secret is concealed within its brick and concrete. Sliver is a hypnotic story of obsession, suspense, and stunning surprises. It is a novel about ultimate power, and the temptations the use of that power brings.

With ice-cold precision, Levin, the author of Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, creates a mesmerizing story that culminates in a scene of electrifying suspense.

“Horror High-Rise,” screams a New York City tabloid’s headline in Levin’s fast-moving, made-for-TV-style thriller. A fashionable Upper East Side apartment building is the site of the fifth unlikely death in recent years, but new tenant Kay Norris, a divorced, chichi book editor originally from Wichita, Kan., is not overly worried. Nor is she fazed when her hot new boyfriend Pete Henderson confides that he is the building’s low-profile owner, and that he has been spying on all the tenants for years using video cameras hidden in their apartments. “Petey, it’s wrong . . . it’s something you have to put behind you,” head-over-heels Kay implores this seductively charming psychopath.

Dorothy, another displaced Kansan, showed more common sense in Oz than does this hapless heroine in the Big Apple. Kay physically resembles Pete’s deceased mother, a famous old-time actress, and a coincidence that links residents of the high-rise to a dark past. In a slam-bang finale, Kay is rescued by her cat, which has more vitality than this lame, formulaic tale. Literary Guild