The book provides as memorable a portrait of a young writer's apprenticeship as the one William Styron gave us in Sophie's Choice ... -- Michiko Kautani on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Living to Tell the Tale. Hope to God it's a LOT better than that. Memorable, my ass -- Sophie's Choice is one of the laughably bad novels of the 1970s. You're really scraping the bottom of the barrel if that's your idea of memorable.