Sylvia A Fictional Memoir

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.Michaels, Leonard is the author of 'Sylvia A Fictional Memoir', published 2007 under ISBN 9780374271077 and ISBN 0374271070.