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WHAT HAPPENED TO SOPHIE WILDER
“
What Happened to Sophie Wilder
is about many things—the New York publishing world, the growing pains of post-collegiate life, the rigors of Roman Catholicism—but at its center it’s a moving meditation on why and for whom we write.”
—
New York Times Book Review
(editor’s choice)
“A crisis of faith is key to the disappearance of a young woman in Christopher Beha’s
What Happened to Sophie Wilder
, which deftly renders the competing impulses—creative, intellectual, emotional—of young writers in New York.”
—
Vogue
“In this smart short novel . . . a young writer deals with the reappearance and disappearance of the woman he sometimes loved.”
—
O, The Oprah Magazine
“
What Happened to Sophie Wilder
is a remarkable first novel, which should especially be read by those who have given up on contemporary literature. Along with giving them something good to read, it will renew their faith in what literature is capable of achieving.”
—D. G. Myers,
Commentary
“This novel is excitingly alert . . . to the ways we understand life in terms of stories, in particular the stories we tell about other people. . . . The story Beha tells about Charlie and Sophie is a convincing contemporary love story, not in spite of its sometimes dizzying self-awareness but, in large part, because of it.”
—
San Francisco Chronicle
“Beha’s beautiful, whip-smart first novel . . . is sober, unsentimental and delivered with intelligence and passion.”
—
Washington Post
FICTION
What Happened to Sophie Wilder
NONFICTION
The Whole Five Feet
Cover design by Steve Attardo
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A
RTS & ENTERTAINMENTS.
Copyright © 2014 by Christopher Beha. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
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EPub Edition July 2014 ISBN 9780062322470
ISBN 978-0-06-232246-3
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