Sophie's Choice by William Styron
#1 New York Times bestseller - National Book Award winner - A modern classic of love and survival, Sophie's Choice follows a young writer drawn into the orbit of a Holocaust survivor and her brilliant, unstable lover in postwar Brooklyn, and into the horrors of her complicated past in Nazi-occupied Poland. Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.William Styron is the author The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice, and Lie Down in Darkness (winner of the Prix de Rome when published in 1951) and Darkness Visible. The author is a graduate of Duke University (1947), where his papers are housed at the Duke University Library. He currently lives in Roxbury, Connecticut, and Martha's Vineyard.
James L. W. West III is Distinguished Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is at work on an edition of Theodore Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt and on the authorized biography of William Styron.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224017572 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224017578 |
| Title | Sophie's Choice |
| Author | William Styron |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1979-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 515 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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