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| Author | Ira Levin |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | March, 1991 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback,paperback) |
| Pages | 190 |
| ISBN | 0-553-07292-7 |
Sliver is an erotic novel by the American writerIra Levin, first published in 1991. The story follows a group of mysterious people in a privately owned high-rise apartment building in New York City after an attractive young woman moves in. The novel was adapted into afilm of the same name in 1993. Directed byPhillip Noyce and written byJoe Eszterhas, it starredSharon Stone,William Baldwin,Polly Walker andTom Berenger.
Kay Norris, a book editor, moves into a Manhattan "sliver” building. Tall and slender, it has only two apartments on each floor. She meets a handsome and friendly fellow occupant. Norris does not know at first that the young man is the owner. He turns out to be a modern-day “peeping tom” who secretly had surveillance cameras and microphones installed in every apartment, with his own place in the building serving as his headquarters. Norris soon becomes embroiled in a murder mystery, and finds herself in danger.
Carolyn See's review in theLos Angeles Times observed the book's heroine "lives such a blameless life...that it comes as a refreshing relief when the voyeur insinuates his way into her real life--even though we all know that no good can come of it." See concluded that "'Sliver,' on the horror graph, comes in at about the level of a hot fudgesundae."[1]
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