SYLVIA

Leonard, a young writer drifting through the city, meets Sylvia by chance at a friends shabby Greenwich Village apartment. Hes ins tantly besotted with her striking beauty and quiet disdain, and the question of what to do with his life is resolved.In this remarka ble semi-autobiographical novel, we are drawn into the world of a beatnik couple living in Manhattan in the early 1960s, and their d emi-monde of jazz, poetry, late nights and early mornings. But when Sylvias depression emerges and her disturbances take hold, thei r fights be...[Read more]