Sophie's Choice
- ISBN-10
- 0679736379
- ISBN-13
- 9780679736370
- Series
- Sophie's Choice
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 580
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992-03-03
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- William Styron
Description
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
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