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Sophie's choice
Title:
Sophie's choice
ISBN:
9780679736370
Edition:
1st Vintage International ed.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, 1992
Physical Description:
562 p. ; 21 cm.
Reading Level:
1260 L Lexile
Summary:
First 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 --
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