562 pages
English language
Published Sept. 7, 1992 by Vintage Books.
Sophie's choice
William Styron: Sophie's choice (1992, Vintage Books)
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- 978-0-679-73637-0
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Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. It concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding-house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South, Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Nathan befriends. Sophie's Choice won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980. The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name. It was controversial for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors -- Fiction
- Young men -- Fiction
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction