{"product_id":"2940169297799","title":"Sophie's Choice (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell.\" That very day, William Styron began writing the first chapter of \u003ci\u003eSophie's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1979, this complex and ambitious novel opens with Stingo, a young southerner, journeying north in 1947 to become a writer. It leads us into his intellectual and emotional entanglement with his neighbors in a Brooklyn rooming house: Nathan, a tortured, brilliant Jew, and his lover, Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman whose wrist bears the grim tattoo of a concentration camp...and whose past is strewn with death that she alone survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSophie's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate, courageous book...a philosophical novel on the most important subject of the twentieth century,\" said novelist and critic John Gardner in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \"One of the reasons Styron succeeds so well in \u003ci\u003eSophie's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e is that, like Shakespeare (I think the comparison is not too grand), Styron knows how to cut away from the darkness of his material, so that when he turns to it again it strikes with increasing force....\u003ci\u003eSophie's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e is a thriller of the highest order, all the more thrilling for the fact that the dark, gloomy secrets we are unearthing one by one--sorting through lies and terrible misunderstandings like a hand groping for a golden nugget in a rattlesnake's nest--may be authentic secrets of history and our own human nature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097861046512,"sku":"2940169297799","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169297799_p0.jpg?v=1763678986","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169297799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}