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New York: Random House, Inc. 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).. First Edition 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1.8 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 515 pages.

Very minor rubbing to the edges and corners. Minor soiling to the lower exterior page edges. Stated First Trade Edition. Binding is tight and square. DJ is protected by a mylar cover.

New York:: Random House,, 1979.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dust jacket (name on front pastedown, mostly hidden by dj flap, crease to front flap of dj, minor edgewear to dj, original price of 12.95 still present.). First trade edition. Novel of the Holocaust, and its effects on a woman who survived the death camps. Winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Oscar award winning movie of the same name, featuring Meryl Streep. 515 pp.

{6 & 3/8' x 9 & 1/2'} in edgeworn dustjacket with small tears. Brown cloth covered boards with gold (and silver) lettering upon spine, beginning to fade. On front board facsimile of author's signature is also stamped in gold. Sandstone color end pages with writing in red ballpoint upper right corner of ffep. Tiny blind stamped square indicating this is a book club edition in lower right corner of rear board. Binding is sound, despite slight pulling head of spine. [516 pages]

New York: Random House, 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good Plus. Styron's fifth novel, the story of the relationship between three people living in a Brooklyn rooming house -- Sophie, a Polish Catholic concentration camp survivor; her lover, Nathan, a Jewish intellectural; and Stringo, the narrator, an ex-Marine trying to become a writer. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and was the basis for the 1982 film starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. First trade edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 515 pages in red cloth-covered boards with author's signature in gold on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's graphic front panel shows author and title in different shades of red against a tan background with "A Novel" in black across bottom of panel. Back dj panel centers a b & w photo of Styron by Nancy Compton on tan background. Boards show a faint, narrow line of color loss on some edges. Text edges show a touch of soiling and two, tiny, almost unnoticeable dents on fore edge. O/w, boards and text are complete, clean, and unmarked in tight, square binding. Dustjacket is price-clipped and spine is sun-faded. Both DJ panels have vertical creases at fore edges where previous owner tried to correct for off-center spine. The DJ is o/w clean, with very minimal surface and edge wear. A not-perfect-but-still-very-decent first edition copy of this 20th century landmark novel.

Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House. New York, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 515 pages. Styron's love story so hauntingly evocative that it, and it's heroine, became an indelible part of the reader's imagination and our literature. Made into a equally classic film. Not price clipped. Former owner's name and date in small print on top of front freepaper. Small water marks bottom of back dustjacket corner, and front. Edgewear. Otherwise a good dustjacket over a very good book..