First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel,Sylviadraws 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.
Sylviais 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 ReviewLeonard Michaels(19332003) was the author ofGoing Places,I Would Have Saved Them If I Could,andThe Men's Club, among other books. FSG will publish hisCollected Storiesin June to coincide with the reissue ofSylvia.
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