Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
"A masterpiece, [which leaves] more conventional treatments of the Holocaust, such as Schindler's List, looking obtuse and sentimental" The Times "William Styron's Sophie's Choice is a landmark of mid-20th-century American fiction - an impressively fat novel that most literate Americans claim to have read even if they haven't" Sunday Telegraph "A weighty, passionate novel ... courageous [and] masterly" New York Times "Styron is a writer's writer, capable of setting a pastoral idyll in Brooklyn, and the traumas narrated occur alongside a classic American coming-of-age story" Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read "Read it if you can bear." Independent--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.