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Sylvia
Contributor(s): Michaels, Leonard (Author), Johnson, Diane (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0374271070     ISBN-13: 9780374271077
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $13.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2007
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006938239
Series: FSG Classics
Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.46" W x 8.59" (0.42 lbs) 144 pages
 
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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.


Contributor Bio(s): Michaels, Leonard: - 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.