Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394461096
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461090
- Seller
-
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Burgundy cloth covered hardcover boards with author's signature in gilt on front cover, gilt lettering to spine, orange endpapers. Slight wrinkle on 2-3 pages of text block. Otherwise, no condition issues.
DJ is unclipped and very slight edgewear to top of spine.
This work earned Styron the 1980 National Book award and was a National Book Award winner. It was also a nationwde bestseller. A 1982 film version was nominated for five Academy Awards.
Mylar protected.
Synopsis
Sophie’s Choice, first published in 1979, is a controversial novel written by American author William Styron, which follows the trials and tribulations of three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn. One of the three is Stingo, an aspiring young writer who begins his stay at the boarding house after being fired. He proceeds to strike up a friendship with a complicated couple–Nathan Landau, a Jewish scientist and self-proclaimed genius, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish-Catholic woman who survived Nazi concentration camps. Following its publication, the novel was banned or censored in South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Communist Poland. These acts of censorship occurred in large part due to the explicit nature of portions of the novel, and Styron’s reframing of focus on the anti-Semitic nature of the Holocaust towards a generalized evil. Though largely controversial, the trio’s twisted and macabre tale won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980 and was adapted into a film in 1982.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bonnie Lane Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01=15-2024-02
- Title
- Sophie's Choice
- Author
- William Styron
- Format/Binding
- Tight
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition, 1979
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394461096
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461090
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Pages
- 575
- Size
- 9 1/2" x 6 1/4"
- Keywords
- Fiction, National Book Award winner. American Author, National Media of Arts winner
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