Sylvia by Leonard Michaels

Sylvia
129 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Leonard Michaels probed the dark side, where "the word love was like a proclamation with the force of kill," in Sylvia (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), his newly reissued novella of an obsessive marriage horribly like his own.
— Cathleen Medwick