Who Is Sylvia? — Tom Clark

This fast-paced cinematic novel depicts a hip young American professor/poet's brief but deeply disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic 60s, the novel opens on the London literary scene where Bob and Sylvia become entangled. The action shifts to the art world and backwaters of the jet-set scene on the French Riviera, where the affair finally decays as Sylvia's drugged psyche disintegrates. Who is Sylvia? is a modern counterpart to the Classic American Expatriate genre of the 20s and 30s.