Styron, William

Three friends, Stingo, a twenty-two-year-old writer; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover, share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.

Story of the Loftis family living in the South, haunted by infidelity and driven by a vengeful love.

The author chronicles his descent into depression, discussing not only his own experience and recovery but also how others can find help.

The author describes his experiences with depression and his resulting suicidal tendencies beginning in 1985.

In telling the story of Sophie, a Holocaust survivor, William Styron was able to approach the Nazi atrocity obliquely, and thus personalize and dramatize a horror so monstrous that the human component is usually lost.

The life of Sophie, a Pole who suffered under the Nazis during the war. The life of Sophie, a Pole who suffered under the Nazis during the war.

After World War II, a Virginia lawyer travels to the Italian village of Sambuco to visit Mason Flagg, a wealthy childhood friend, finds that Flagg has committed rape, murder, and suicide, and begins a lengthy, revealing conversation with an alcoholic artist with connections to the events.

Tells the story of the short-lived, bloody rebellion of slaves in Southhampton, Virginia, in August, 1831, as seen through the eyes of the instigator, Nat Turner.

Sophie is a haunting young woman of endless passion and vibrant joy, of quiet tenderness and hidden desperation. It sweeps us into her loves, her fears, her sorrow, and back through a past that Sophie along survived...until we reach the electrifying, terrible secret - Sophie's choice.