Sylvia: A Novel (FSG Classics)

Sylvia: A Novel (FSG Classics)

<p>First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, <i>Sylvia </i>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.</p><p>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.</p>