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BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards, Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A Novel. ALSO KNOWN AS: Portions of this book previously appeared in Esquire. MOVIE TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1982 feature film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: Sophie's Choice unfolds a story as absorbing and effective and memorable as any work of fiction in our time. It is written at full tilt, and the mastery of its style and the power of its narrative never falter. Stingo came to Brooklyn by way of Virginia and the Marine Corps-with a brief sojourn as a manuscript reader at McGraw-Hill. He settled in Yetta Zimmerman's pink-painted rooming house, where the rent was cheap enough for a young man with only a few hundred dollars to devote himself to the novel he wanted to write. Sophie and Nathan lived upstairs, as he agonizingly discovered when their rocking bed threatened to collapse the ceiling. Thus began a strange relationship: Sophie, the Polish Catholic girl whose wrist bore the grim stamp of a concentration camp...Nathan, her lover, the charismatic Jewish intellectual...and the narrator Stingo, the sex-starved "South'n" boy who was instantly captivated by Sophie's vulnerable blond beauty. As Stingo struggles with his book-and tries desperately to cope with his growing but unrequited love for the woman upstairs-he also becomes Sophie's confidant, irresistibly absorbed in the harrowing story she tells of Nathan's obsessive jealousy and her own unshakable devotion to him. And as Nathan and Sophie's quarrels intensify, and Stingo is drawn even more into her life, she is compelled, bit by bit, to confront her past-a past strewn with death that she alone survived. In Sophie's Choice, William Styron gives us a love story so hauntingly evocative that it, and its heroine, will become an indelible part of the reader's imagination and our literature. William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia. He served almost three years in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and after the war, returned to complete his studies at Duke University. Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron's first novel, appeared in 1951. For that initial work, he was awarded the Prix de Rome of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later his short novel The Long March was published, followed by Set This House on Fire (1960), The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), which received the Pulitzer Prize for 1967, and a play, In the Clap Shack (1973).

New York: Random House, 1979. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 515 pages. Review copy with laid in slip. The National Book Award winning novel from the author of "Lie Down in Darkness." The basis for the Alan Pakula directed movie with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. Streep won an Oscar for her performance. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight sunning to and along the spine.

First trade edition. Bottom corners and foot of spine lightly bumped, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine, a bit of delamination on the rear panel, and a crease on the front flap. Winner of the National Book Award, Meryl Streep won an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character in the 1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, and that also featured Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. *Burgess 99.*.

Random House Inc, 1979. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket First edition . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Size: 9x6x1; Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Bildungsromane; Good hard cover with dust jacket nicked, book club, name written on front free end page, tips bumped, and prompt shipping with tracking.

New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good- dust jacket. A few tears to jacket edges. Owner name and date to front end page. Text is clean and unmarked. First Trade Edition is stated. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 515 pages.

Size: 9x6x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!