cover image The Final Opus of Leon Solomon

The Final Opus of Leon Solomon

Jerome Badanes. Simon & Schuster, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-70303-5

A Holocaust survivor is arrested for plundering documents from the Judaica collection of the New York Public Library. PW determined that the narrator is ``complicated and intriguing'' and the book has some brilliant``brilliantly'' below, in quote moments, ``but the novel founders because anger and craziness, even with built-in historical toeholds, are not enough.'' (Nov.)