Sylvia A Novel |
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Author:
| Michaels, Leonard |
Introduction by:
| Johnson, Diane |
Series title: | FSG Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4299-3523-4 |
Publication Date: | May 2007 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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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.
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.