Styron, William — Sophie's Choice

New York, Random House, 1979. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. As searing a novel as one can find, being a big, fat, sprawling novel of antisemitism, W.W.I.I., The Holocaust, love, rejection and motherhood. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean but for some foxing along page edges, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, light creasing to inner front flap, protected by a plastic coat. Sophie's Choice revolves around the relationships among three people sharing a boarding-house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South, the Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps. Stingo befriends both of them but wholly pines for Sophie, who was forced into a terrible choice during the Holocaust. Sophie's Choice won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980. The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name. It was controversial for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust. 562 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,