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  • Written by: William Styron
  • Narrated by: Norman Snow
  • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Sophie's Choice

Written by: William Styron
Narrated by: Norman Snow
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Publisher's Summary

In this brilliant, multi-layered novel, a young Southerner, Stingo, wants to become a writer. In Brooklyn, he meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman. She has a terrible wound in her past, one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
©1982 William Styron (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

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"No reader of Sophie's Choice can doubt that Styron has put immense energy into trying to understand and deal justly with the evils in American history and the European Holocaust, to say nothing of the evil (as well as the good) in his characters....Scene after scene comes back now, long after I last read the book, with astonishing vividness - perhaps the most obvious mark of a masterpiece." (John Gardner)

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This is abridged!

Wonderful listening. Disappointed to learn it was the abridged version. The audio book should have been labelled as such.

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