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.