Sophie's Choice (novel)
1979 novel by William Styron / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sophie's Choice is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. The author's last novel, 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 Stingo befriends.
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Author | William Styron |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1979 |
Pages | 562 |
ISBN | 0-394-46109-6 |
OCLC | 4593241 |
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Sophie's Choice won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980.[1] 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.