Dale loves Sophie to death
/ Robb Forman Dew
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux , c1981
- 217 p. ; 22 cm.
- Winner of the National Book Award .
Robb Forman Dew's cult first novel explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells the story of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she and their children spend the summer in her Midwestern hometown.