Sophie's Choice tells the story of three young friends who lived in Brooklyn in 1947. Stingo, the narrator, is a Southern boy, born and bred, who moved to New York with the ambition of becoming a writer. His stifling nine-to-five job at a publishing company kills his spirit and his hopes, and the young man quickly becomes jaded. Worst of all, he cannot write; he is blocked. All that changes when Stingo is fired and moves into a boarding house in a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. There, he meets his fellow tenants, Nathan Landau and Sophie Zawistowski, a volatile but fascinating young couple. Thrilled to be in the company of people his age, Stingo begins to enjoy life again, and finds new inspiration for his writing. But Nathan's unpredictable temper quickly becomes a fly in the.....
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