Sylvia
A American, Mental Illness, Mental Health book. I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species. Leonard Michaels, 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.
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- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9780374271077 / 374271070
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I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species. Leonard Michaels, Sylvia //
I don't really know how to react to this novel. I know from growing up with my mad sister that people suffering from mental/physical illnesses can be abusive. Much of Sylvia's behaviour sounds familiar to me and yes, I wouldn't hesitate to call it abuse. But how this book is written, and how Sylvia's actions are framed does not seem... This is lacking something, even at the level of the prose. Almost a memoir, it's about his first wife's suicide. Micheals's prose is so clean and pure throughout this book. It avoids the woe-is-me aspect of bad relationship memoirs because of its frank honesty. There's also some fun factoid elements scattered throughout, like when Michaels gets his first literary agent and then meets Jack Kerouac....
