Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Book Club Printing.1979. A splendid signed copy in near fine condition that shows mild age toning in a well used price clipped dustjacket that is slightly faded with chips and archival repaired closed end tears. This copy is square, tight, clean and sturdy with no spine loosening--as with most larger books. Styron won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Confessions of Nat Turner" A very nice signed copy--although a BOMC issue. Made into a well known prize winning movie.

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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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Seller: Classic First Editions (US)
Seller's Inventory #: cfe10618
Title: Sophie's Choice (Signed)
Author: Styron, William
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394461096
ISBN 13: 9780394461090
Publisher: Random House Inc
Place of Publication: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1979
Pages: 515
Keywords: NEW YORK N Y FICTION
Bookseller catalogs: Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors;

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