Sophie's Choice
$38.87
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2004
Summary
The movie was Oscar-nominated and the book was banned in libraries across the States. This heartbreaking, compassionate and controversial novel interweaves themes of survivor guilt, madness and betrayal.
In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099470441 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099470446 |
| Author: | William Styron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Vintage War |
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A masterpiece, [which leaves] more conventional treatments of the Holocaust, such as Schindler’s List , looking obtuse and sentimental
A masterpiece, [which leaves] more conventional treatments of the Holocaust, such as Schindler’s List, looking obtuse and sentimental * The Times *William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice is a landmark of mid-20th-century American fiction - an impressively fat novel that most literate Americans claim to have read even if they haven’t * Sunday Telegraph *A compassionate, brilliantly written novel * The Times *A weighty, passionate novel … courageous [and] masterly * NY Times *Styron is a writer’s writer, capable of setting a pastoral idyll in Brooklyn, and the traumas narrated occur alongside a classic American coming-of-age story – Xan Brooks * Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read *Read it if you can bear. – Katy Guest * The Independent *If you’re not sobbing at the end of this tale of tortured souls, consult a doctor immediately because you might be dead – David Baldacci * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
William Styron
William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925 and was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006.
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