Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/02/2004
ISBN: 9780099470441
Length: 656 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 33mm x 129mm
Weight: 472g
RRP: £10.99
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 drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/02/2004
ISBN: 9780099470441
Length: 656 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 33mm x 129mm
Weight: 472g
RRP: £10.99
A masterpiece, [which leaves] more conventional treatments of the Holocaust, such as Schindler's List, looking obtuse and sentimental
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
A compassionate, brilliantly written novel
A weighty, passionate novel . . . courageous [and] masterly
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