STYRON, William — Sophie's Choice

New York: Random House, 1979. Winner of the National Book Award STYRON, William. Sophie's Choice. New York: Random House, 1979. First trade edition, second printing. Octavo (9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in; 233 x 145 mm). 515, [3] pp. Publisher's original deep maroon cloth, gilt lettered. Dust jacket. Foxing sprinkles to top edge. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket. Sophie's Choice was the author's last novel. It concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South; Jewish scientist Nathan Landau; and the latter's eponymous lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Stingo befriends. Sophie's Choice won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980. The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name. It was controversial for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust. .