Sophie's Choice: A Novel
by Styron, William
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1979. Lightly worn copy of the first trade edition of this heart-wrenching novel. Maroon cloth, 517 pages, dustjacket. The book has light external wear, good hinges, sound text block, remainder stamp at lower edge of text block, name at top of front free endpaper, pages otherwise clean and unmarked. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped (12.95) and is uniformly age-toned with minor shelf soil, tiny coffee-colored stain on author's portrait on rear cover, minor chipping to spine head.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024546
- Title
- Sophie's Choice: A Novel
- Author
- Styron, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- NOVEL CONCENTRATION CAMP FICTION POLISH CATHOLIC GIRL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
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Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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