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Sylvia

by Leonard Michaels
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Passionate, complicated love buoyed by jazz & poetry.

Recommended for anyone interested in a semi-autobiographical novel that explores the highs and lows of a passionate relationship between two beatniks in NYC during the early 1960s. This book provides an incredibly clear and precise insight into the intensity of young relationships, their exquisite pain, and the destructive power of love. Michaels' Sylvia is a powerful account of love, madness, and self-destruction.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Sylvia

by Leonard Michaels
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ISBN: 9781907970559
Authors: Leonard Michaels
Publisher: Daunt Books
Date of Publication: 2015-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Goodreads rating: 3.79
(rated by 2105 readers)

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.
 

Passionate, complicated love buoyed by jazz & poetry.

Recommended for anyone interested in a semi-autobiographical novel that explores the highs and lows of a passionate relationship between two beatniks in NYC during the early 1960s. This book provides an incredibly clear and precise insight into the intensity of young relationships, their exquisite pain, and the destructive power of love. Michaels' Sylvia is a powerful account of love, madness, and self-destruction.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.