Styrons most impressive performance. . . . Belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces. —Washington Post Book World Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, Sophies Choice is William Styrons 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 Nathans lover. Their entanglement in one anothers 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, Sophies Choice explores the good and evil of humanity through Stingos burgeoning worldliness, Nathans volatile personality, and Sophies tragic past.
