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Sylvia

A Novel

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Author: Leonard Michaels; Introduction by Diane Johnson

Sylvia

Sylvia

$15.00

About This Book

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...

Page Count
144
On Sale
05/29/2007

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374271077

In The News

Sylvia is a fictionalized memoir, first published in 1992, about Michaels's first wife Sylvia Bloch, who committed suicide . . . At 129 pages, the reissue of Sylvia, though billed as a novel, has the power and the rawness of memoir.” —Mona Simpson, The New York Times Book Review

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Sylvia

Sylvia

$15.00