Sylvia

First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme intimacy of self-destructive violence.

Reproducing a time and place with extraordinary clarity, Leonard Michaels explores with self-wounding honesty the excruciating particulars of a youthful marriage headed for disaster.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/29/2007
ISBN: 9780374271077
Pages: 129
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.59h x 5.46w x 0.37d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2007 pg. 131
New York Times 06/10/2007 pg. 14