A masterpiece, [ which leaves] more conventional treatments of the Holocaust, such as Schindler's List, looking obtuse and sentimental * The Times * William Styron's Sophie's Choice is a landmark of mid-20th-century American fiction - an impressively fat novel that most literate Americans claim to have read even if they haven't * Sunday Telegraph * A compassionate, brilliantly written novel * The Times * A weighty, passionate novel . . . courageous [ and] masterly * NY Times * Styron is a writer's writer, capable of setting a pastoral idyll in Brooklyn, and the traumas narrated occur alongside a classic American coming-of-age story -- Xan Brooks * Guardian, 1000 novels everyone must read * Read it if you can bear. -- Katy Guest * The Independent * If youre not sobbing at the end of this tale of tortured souls, consult a doctor immediately because you might be dead -- David Baldacci * Mail on Sunday *
