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David Lodge,Leonard Michaels

Sylvia

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Leonard, a young writer drifting through the city, meets Sylvia by chance at a friend's shabby Greenwich Village apartment. He's instantly besotted with her striking beauty and quiet disdain, and the question of what to do with his life is resolved. In this remarkable semi-autobiographical novel, we are drawn into the world of a beatnik couple living in Manhattan in the early 1960s, and their demi-monde of jazz, poetry, late nights and early mornings. But when Sylvia's depression emerges and her disturbances take hold, their fights become increasingly violent and their relationship hurtles towards self-destruction. Written with extraordinary clarity and precision, this is a compelling portrait of the mad intensity, exquisite pain and destructive power of young love. 'Every page reveals the mark of an extraordinarily original and gifted talent.' — William Styron 'The writing isn't merely stylish; it's vital . . . the ending is as shocking as that of any thriller.' — Sarah Manguso 'A novel that has the power and the rawness of memoir.' — New York Times
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126 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
Publisher
Daunt Books
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    I’ll drive him crazy before he drives me crazy.
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    He always does something to make me wait before saying what he has in mind. He lights a cigarette, or stares into my eyes and says nothing. The effect is eerily suspenseful. Finally, whatever he says is anticlimactic.
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    Our conversations, usually about literature or movies, were much influenced by marijuana, hence thrilling, but also very boring.

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