num_pages: 144
description: Although Sophie's Choice by William Styron won the American Book Award for fiction, it met with some very mixed reviews. Some critics regarded the novel as bombastic and melodramatic-in short, a colossal failure. In William Styron's "Sophie's Choice," Rhoda Sirlin demonstrates that Sophie's Choice is Styron's most audacious, original, and artistically successful novel to date.
language: English
title: William Styron's Sophie's Choice: Crime and Self-Punishment
titlecomplete: William Styron's Sophie's Choice: Crime and Self-Punishment
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University Press of America