Dear Mr. Lewis: In accordance with your request, I am sending to you, enclosed, a short critical estimate of Against Silence. I hope it will be of some help in encouraging the wide dissemination of the three-volume set. Against Silence does not “fill a need.” Rather, it creates a need in order to fill it – a need to hear the various “voices” of Elie Wiesel coming together, a kind of literary choir by a solitary singer-writer. The result is a splendid three-volume set that inspires, frightens, consoles, saddens, and enlightens – separately, as you browse through individual passages, and all together when you sit back and reflect on both the passion of Wiesel’s message and the art of his medium. NL:is Enc. 500 West 185th Street, New York, N.Y. 10033 • (212) 960-5280