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SOPHIE'S CHOICE
by STYRON, WILLIAM
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. All edges gilt. Covers and spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Sewn-in silk bookmark. SIGNED by the4 author. Certificate of authenticity and Easton Note about the book and author are laid-in. First published in 1979, it won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1980 and was made into a movie of the same name in 1982. 562pp.. Signed by Author. Collector's Edition. Full Dark Blue Leather. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
Synopsis
Sophie’s Choice, first published in 1979, is a controversial novel written by American author William Styron, which follows the trials and tribulations of three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn. One of the three is Stingo, an aspiring young writer who begins his stay at the boarding house after being fired. He proceeds to strike up a friendship with a complicated couple–Nathan Landau, a Jewish scientist and self-proclaimed genius, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish-Catholic woman who survived Nazi concentration camps. Following its publication, the novel was banned or censored in South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Communist Poland. These acts of censorship occurred in large part due to the explicit nature of portions of the novel, and Styron’s reframing of focus on the anti-Semitic nature of the Holocaust towards a generalized evil. Though largely controversial, the trio’s twisted and macabre tale won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980 and was adapted into a film in 1982.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014860
- Title
- SOPHIE'S CHOICE
- Author
- STYRON, WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Literature, Authgraph, Signed Edition, Styron, Fine Binding
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Laid-in
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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