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rebleejen 's review for:
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
This book wasn't quite what I expected (not that any book is obligated to be what I expected). It's roughly half about the Holocaust and half about the narrator's quest to get laid. I'm not sure how the latter was meant to relate to the former, but that might be my failure as a reader. (I guess it's partly a coming-of-age novel because how do boys become men? They fight a war or they have sex, and this kid doesn't get to fight in a war.) Anyway, I appreciated the insights on guilt and evil and moral courage and culpability. It's a powerful, depressing story.