Meryl Streep won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Sophie in the 1982 film adaptation. Sophie’s Choice received the first American Book Award for fiction in the year of its publication” (Tibbetts & Welsh, 391-92). This novel, Styron’s sixth, “has been praised both for its formal complexity and for its elegant style… Moreover, the originality and seriousness with which the book approaches its major themes-the Holocaust, American racism, postwar existential despair and the art of fiction-are impressive. The book is powerfully moving” (Burgess, 99 Novels, 121). “It was a daring act for Styron, whose sensibilities are wholly Southern, to venture into the territory of the American Jew, to say nothing of his plunge into European history. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst trade edition of the award-winning novel, signed by the author.
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