Sophie's Choice / William Styron by Styron, William, 1925-2006

NY, Random House, c1979. Hard Cover. [ix], 515 p.; 25 cm. Third printing. Concerns a young American Southerner, an aspiring writer, who befriends the Jewish Nathan Landau and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish (but non-Jewish) survivor of Nazi concentration camps. An immediate bestseller and the basis of a successful film, the novel is often considered both Styron's best work and a major novel of the twentieth century. From the library of Prof. Vincent Tomas of the Brown University Department of Philosophy. Stock# 45235. Good+ / dj good+.