Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0679640290
ISBN 13
9780679640295
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Pages
624
Subject
Holocaust survivors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Young men -- Fiction. Good and evil -- Fiction.
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Abstract
The time is 1947. Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture his imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible secrets.
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Publisher Comments
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: War fiction
Bildungsromans
War stories
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Styron
ISBN: 0679640290 9780679640295
OCLC Number: 42652603
Notes: "20th anniversary edition"--Dust jacket.
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1979.
Awards: National Book Award for Fiction, 1980.
Description: vii, 606 pages ; 21 cm
Responsibility: William Styron ; with an afterword by the author.
Number of Copies
1
