William Styron — Sophie's Choice
Corgi 1981 Paperback, 688pp. First published in 1979, this complex and ambitious novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp.and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived. (ISBN: 9780552116107). Fair.