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Sophie's Choice

By: William Styron
Narrated by: Norman Snow
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In this brilliant, multi-layered novel, a young Southerner, Stingo, wants to become a writer. In Brooklyn, he meets Nathan, a brilliant Jewish intellectual involved in a turbulent love-hate affair with Sophie, a beautiful Polish woman. She has a terrible wound in her past, one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.©1982 William Styron (P)2007 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological War & Military Heartfelt Military War

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"No reader of Sophie's Choice can doubt that Styron has put immense energy into trying to understand and deal justly with the evils in American history and the European Holocaust, to say nothing of the evil (as well as the good) in his characters....Scene after scene comes back now, long after I last read the book, with astonishing vividness - perhaps the most obvious mark of a masterpiece." (John Gardner)
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This tragic story filled me with a variety of emotions. I needed time at the end to pull myself together & dry my tears. Exceptional writing and performance.

The prison of the mind

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this story is a heartbreaking tale of a woman who faced the most horrifying choice imaginable.

Heartbreaking

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One of the greatest books I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.
The writing is brilliant and the story masterful. The narrator is also spectacular; there were many moments where I was lost inside his voice - visualizing the words with my imagination.
Sophie's Choice is undoubtedly one of the best books of the 20th century (or any century for that matter).
I have no idea how this is sitting at a 3.8 average on Audible currently; in my mind it only shows the idiocy of some Audible listeners - listeners who believe listening to a book is the same as reading it.
Highly recommended.

Masterpiece

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reading is good but disappointed that its not a full text. am I mistaken or what.

it is not a full text.

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It has been years since I read this book. Never has a book stuck with me so much. The ending completely caught me off guard, Her choice is one that I will remember.

A book that sticks with you

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Too much of the original story was excluded from this version. Much less impactful. A shell of the original book.

Abridged

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Missing large parts of the novel. I am sorry that it was not available in your usual unabridged form.

The skipping of large parts of the story.

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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Yes I would, because this way, it's easy to make sure you have read one of the classics.

Was Sophie's Choice worth the listening time?

Yes it was.

Finally got to this classic!

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I have read, listened to, as well as watched the movie several times now. Layers of emotion keep resurfacing in every word, sentence and with every turn of the page you want to yank out each character and save them from heartache and devastating destiny.
The narrating performance of Mr. Snow is outstanding.

Vivid, full of love and unimaginable pain

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Gently told and realistic in portrayal of trauma, this book brings the tragedy of Holocaust to the emotional level. The story of a single person makes it posssible to relate and understand the complicated effects of this kind of tragedy on one's life. Such a painfully touching story to hear after reading the memoirs of Rudolf Höss.

Tragic and beautiful

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