Sophie's ChoiceRandom House, 1979 - 515 pages 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 madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture his imagination. The deeper Stingo sinks into these people's lives, the more he learns that each harbors terrible secrets. |
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Page 80
... Poland , which is a poor country and suffer from , you know , an inferiority complex . Nathan thinks I'm exaggerating about the good times we had he makes so many jokes about Poland - but I tell him about my family and how we lived in a ...
... Poland , which is a poor country and suffer from , you know , an inferiority complex . Nathan thinks I'm exaggerating about the good times we had he makes so many jokes about Poland - but I tell him about my family and how we lived in a ...
Page 82
... Poland than Hitler , and drunk a whole lot of schnapps to celebrate the night Pilsudski died . He was a pacifist , my father , and even though he would talk about these sunny times for Poland , I knew that au fond he was gloomy and ...
... Poland than Hitler , and drunk a whole lot of schnapps to celebrate the night Pilsudski died . He was a pacifist , my father , and even though he would talk about these sunny times for Poland , I knew that au fond he was gloomy and ...
Page 247
... Poland stomped upon with metronomic tedium and regularity by the French , the Swedes , the Austrians , Prussians , Russians , and pos- sessed by even such greedy incubuses as the Turks . Despoiled and exploited like the South , and like ...
... Poland stomped upon with metronomic tedium and regularity by the French , the Swedes , the Austrians , Prussians , Russians , and pos- sessed by even such greedy incubuses as the Turks . Despoiled and exploited like the South , and like ...
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