Sylvia Contributor(s): Michaels, Leonard (Author), Johnson, Diane (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0374271070 ISBN-13: 9780374271077 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 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. |
Additional Information |
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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Publisher 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. |
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. |