5/29/2023 0 Comments Sophie's Choice by William StyronIn 1980, the book won the US National Book Award for Fiction. Sophie’s Choice quickly became a bestselling novel. As Stingo has recently been let go from his low-level job at a publishing house, he hopes only to get work in on his first novel-until he begins to fall in love with mysterious and tragic Sophie, who upends his world as he falls into her and Nathan’s twisted orbit. Sophie’s tragedy during the Holocaust is centered around the fact that-spoiler alert-she was forced to choose which of her children would be immediately put to death upon arrival at Auschwitz, a haunting decision that has dragged her into depression and alcoholism. The brilliant Nathan suffers from paranoid schizophrenia in secret, causing him to occasionally lash out in violent and delusional ways. The characters in this novel are viscerally intense, carrying emotional damage that spurs them on to devastating action.
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