"Sophie's Choice" by William Styron - currently $3.99 at Amazon (US)

[caleb72]

“Styron’s most impressive performance. . . . Belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces.” —Washington Post Book World

Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, Sophie’s Choice is William Styron’s classic novel of love, survival, and regret, set in Brooklyn in the wake of the Second World War. The novel centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor who is Nathan’s lover. Their entanglement in one another’s lives will build to a stirring revelation of agonizing secrets that will change them forever.

Poetic in its execution, and epic in its emotional sweep, Sophie’s Choice explores the good and evil of humanity through Stingo’s burgeoning worldliness, Nathan’s volatile personality, and Sophie’s tragic past. Mixing elements from Styron’s own experience with themes of the Holocaust and the history of slavery in the American South, the novel is a profound and haunting human drama. The result is Styron at the pinnacle of his literary brilliance.

This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

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[Dr. Drib]

This is a great book.

I bought this when it first came out, in 1979 or thereabouts.

It won the National Book Award for Best Novel.



Don

[caleb72]

I wasn't going to purchase it because it's going to be so long until I get around to reading it anyway. But I have a weakness for books that have won major awards when they're discounted.

[Dr. Drib]

You might want to check out a chapter to see if his style (and subject matter) is to your liking.



Don