Sophie's Choice: A Novel
William Styron
eBook
(Open Road Media, April 30, 2010)
This award-winning novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in postâWWII Brooklyn âbelongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpiecesâ (The Washington Post Book World). Winner of the National Book Award and a modern classic, Sophieâs Choice centers on three characters: Stingo, a sexually frustrated aspiring novelist; Nathan, his charismatic but violent Jewish neighbor; and Sophie, an Auschwitz survivor who is Nathanâs lover. Their entanglement in one anotherâs 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, Sophieâs Choice explores the good and evil of humanity through Stingoâs burgeoning worldliness, Nathanâs volatile personality, and Sophieâs tragic past. Mixing elements from Styronâs 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, representing Styron at the pinnacle of his literary brilliance. This ebook features an illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.