Sophie's Choice distinctly parallels Styron's own journey as a writer. Stingo's fascination with the death of a youthful friend, Maria Hunt, suggests Styron's own when he wrote about the doomed Peyton Loftis in Lie Down in Darkness (1951). Similarly Stingo has been able to come to New.....
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