In Maryland, you see, unlike Virginia, they had a certain amount of legal gambling and you could put a nickel in this machine and bet on one of, oh, say a dozen tiny metal horses running down a track. I remember my mother had given me ...
As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoid Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more ...
The time is 1947. Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, has settled in America. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a...
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan ...
Sophie's Choice has met a tremendous success since publication in 1979 and has been translated in many languages, including Japanese and Russian; it bas been made into a movie by Alan Pakula, with Meryl Streep in the unforgettable leading ...
Sophieâ (TM)s Choice: A Contemporary Casebook is a collection of interpretations and reactions to William Styronâ (TM)s famous 1979 novel of the Holocaust. Sophieâ (TM)s Choice won the American Book...
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past--one that impels both Sophie and Nathan ...
Also interested in the contemporary short story he is the author (with C. Maisonnat) of La Nouvelle Anglo-saxonne. Initiation à une lecture psychanalytique (Hachette Supérieur, 1998).
Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a love-hate affair between a Jewish man and a Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past - one that impels Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.
Sophie's Choice
Sophie is a little Chihuahua who wants to explore the world around her.
These poems are from the heart, whether they bring tears to your eyes or make you smile with delight. Each and every piece penned is of love, loss, nature and remembrance. They are written works of art.
Who says love can't last forever?
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time "[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a...