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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) was the author of Going Places, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, and The Men's Club, among other books.
- 144 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: FSG Classics
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Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"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
About the Author
Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) was the author of Going Places, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, and The Men's Club, among other books. FSG will publish his Collected Stories in June to coincide with the reissue of Sylvia.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.59 Inches (H) x 5.46 Inches (W) x .37 Inches (D)
Weight: .42 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 144
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Series Title: FSG Classics
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
Author: Leonard Michaels
Language: English
Street Date: May 29, 2007
TCIN: 82950554
UPC: 9780374271077
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-2651
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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