num_pages: 129
description: 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.
language: English
title: Sylvia
titlecomplete: Sylvia
genres: American, Americana, New York, Historical Fiction, Novella, Literary Fiction, Novels, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2028
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux