The movie was Oscar-nominated and the book was banned in libraries across the States. This heartbreaking, compassionate and controversial novel interweaves themes of survivor guilt, madness and betrayal.
Born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925, William Styron was educated at Duke University. He served in the Marine Corps during the last war, and was recalled to service during the Korean War. After 1952, he lived mainly in Europe, before settling in a rural part of Connecticut. He died in 2006.
A masterpiece, [which leaves] more conventional treatments of the
Holocaust, such as Schindler's List, looking obtuse and
sentimental
*The Times*
William Styron's Sophie's Choice is a landmark of mid-20th-century
American fiction - an impressively fat novel that most literate
Americans claim to have read even if they haven't
*Sunday Telegraph*
A compassionate, brilliantly written novel
*The Times*
A weighty, passionate novel . . . courageous [and] masterly
*NY Times*
Styron is a writer's writer, capable of setting a pastoral idyll in
Brooklyn, and the traumas narrated occur alongside a classic
American coming-of-age story
*Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read*
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