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. 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." 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. ""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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