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Aug 10, 2010 including styrons own place on the list, 22 authorsalmost a third of the 77 authors on the listare mentioned in sophies choice. Sophies choice 1979 is one of william styrons betterremembered novels. Sophies choice won the american book award and sold more than three million copies worldwide, but the novel has remained controversialfor its perceived treatment of women, its mixing. The top 100 list is a pretty conventional list of reputedly. Sophies choice william styron to the memory of my father 18891978 contents chapter one chapter two chapter three chapter four. On november 1, 2006, william styron died suddenly of pneumonia. His books include lie down in darkness, the long march, set this house on fire, the confessions of nat turner, sophies choice, this quiet dust, darkness visible, and a tidewater morning. Sophies choice by styron, william and a great selection of related books. Set in the late 1940s, the novel is narrated by stingo, a young southern writer who is the authors thinly veiled alter ego. Sophie s choice by william styron, 9780099470441, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Sophies choice, by william styron request pdf researchgate. In this sophies choice excerpt he describes a young polish mother, sophie, with her two. The heroine of william styrons sophies choice is a creature of such extravagant and contradictory attributes that it isnt always easy, while reading the novel, to imagine her in the flesh. This awardwinning novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in postwwii brooklyn belongs on that small shelf reserved for american masterpieces the washington post book world.
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