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| Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski recommended: 0 times published at: 1993 Synopsis: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski (1993) is a collection of intervies of Jerzy Kosinski, edited by Tom Teicholz. It is part of Literary Conversation Series by University Press of Mississippi. --- Content Introduction Chronology Stepmother Tongue Trade Winds Jerzy Kosinski The Art of Fiction XLVI - Jerzy Kosinski Jerzy Kosinski: An Interview Jerzy Kosinski Reaches Down... read more | |
 | Passing by : selected essays, 1962-1991 recommended: 0 times published at: 1992 Synopsis: Passing by: Selected Essays, 1962-1991 (1992) is a collection of essays by Jerzy Kosinski. The book features pieces about polo and skiing, levitation, the streets of New York, present-day Poland, the Cannes film festival, celebrities, and more. The collection was published posthumously after his 1991 suicide. --- Synopsis Jerzy Kosinski's suicide in 1991 shocked the literary world. A Polish emigre... read more |
 | The hermit of 69th Street : the working papers of Norbert Kosky recommended: 0 times published at: 1988 Synopsis: The Hermit of 69th Street (1988) is Jerzy Kosinski's final novel. The novel was published on heels of multiple accusation of plagiarism and ghost writing. The book, an "autofiction", portrays a travails of a burnt-out writer named Kosky who author described as Kosinski without the sin. As with it being an autofiction, topics covered are typical Kosinski, such holocaust, Poland (Ruthania), and sex.... read more |
 | Pinball recommended: 0 times published at: 1982 Synopsis: Pinball (1982) is 1969 National Book Award for Fiction winner Jerzy Kosinski's eighth novel. In the story a young woman, assisted by a once-famous classical composer, investigates the identity of a fantastically popular but mysteriously incognito rock-and-roll star. Like many of his later books, it introduces much sex and suspense in the plot. The book failed to generate much comercial or critical... read more |
 | Passion play recommended: 0 times published at: 1979 Synopsis: Passion Play (1979) is a novel by Jerzy Kosinski. According to New York Times Obituary, [Kosinski] was once described as a "displaced person in an uncharted landscape," a phrase he himself used to describe the main character of his novel "Passion Play." What makes this book intriguing for Kosinski afficionado is the portray of Fabian, the protagonist. Fabian is like many of Kosinski's protagonist... read more |
 | Blind date recommended: 0 times published at: 1977 Synopsis: Blind Date (1977) is a novel by Jerzy Kosinski. The book is written in the format of vignettes like many of his novels. --- Product Description Jerzy Kosinski, the author of Being There and The Painted Bird, delivers an enthralling psychological novel and a spectacular hero in Blind Date. George Levanter is a mystery -- an international character whose life is delivered in a series of scorching... read more |
| Cockpit recommended: 0 times published at: 1975 Synopsis: Cockpit (1975) is a novel by 1969 National Book Award for Fiction winner Jerzy Kosinski. Like many of his other novels, it is written in somewhat chaotic vignette based format. The story is about a Kafkaesque secret agent named Tarden who wages a one-man war against the whole of society and those members of it who epitomize the brutality of that society. Tarden continuously voyeur through the society... read more | |
| The devil tree recommended: 0 times published at: 1973 Synopsis: The Devil Tree (1973) is a novel by Jerzy Kosinski. The book is written in a series of disconnected vignetts in first and third person, a style that Kosinski repeatedly used in his novels. The story is about a youg man, Whalen, who inherits America's wealthiest estates after wandering through years of self exploration through sex, travel, and drugs. His bouts with social order continues after he... read more | |
 | Being there recommended: 0 times published at: 1970 Synopsis: Being There (1970) is a satire on American popular culture by Jerzy Kosinski. The book follows the career of a simple-minded gardener named Chauncey Gardinier, a man without many defining qualities but assumes the persona of those he watches on television and whose simple statements about gardening are taken as sage wisdom by the powerful becoming the heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a... read more |
 | Steps recommended: 0 times published at: 1968 Synopsis: Steps (1968) is novel by Jerzy Kosinski. The sequel to The Painted Bird (1965) shows the unnamed boy of the earlier novel becoming an adult; his youthful suffering makes him unable to conform to accepted social norms. It is a novel comprising scores of loosely connected vignettes and became a subject of a experiment by a writer Chuck Ross on how difficult it is to get the book published if... read more |
 | The Art of the Self: Essays à propos Steps recommended: 0 times published at: 1968 Synopsis: The Art of the Self: Essays à propos Steps (1968) is an essay by Jerzy Kosinski published originally by Scientia-Factum. As the title suggests, the book is an essay about Steps (1968), his National Book Award for Fiction winning novel. The excerpt of the essay can be read in exilequarterly.com. ... read more |
 | The painted bird recommended: 0 times published at: 1965 Synopsis: The Painted Bird (1965) is a controversial novel by Jerzy Kosinski. It was first book he published under name "Jerzy Kosinski" after publishing two non-fictional book under pseudonym Joseph Novak. The book established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. The book describe the world as seen by a young boy during WWII while wandering around unidentified areas of Eastern Europe during World War... read more |
| No third path. recommended: 0 times published at: 1962 Synopsis: No Third Path (1962) is a non-fictional book about communism in Soviet Union by Jerzy Kosinski, published under pseudonym Joseph Novak. Kosinski also published The future is ours, comrade : conversations with the Russians (1960) under the same pseudonym before publishing first and his breakthrough novel The Painted Bird (1965). Kosinski discussed about the book and writing in English... read more | |
 | The future is ours, comrade : conversations with the Russians recommended: 0 times published at: 1960 Synopsis: The Future is Ours, Comrade : Conversaions with the Russians (1960) is Jerzy Kosinski's first book. It was pseudonymously published under name Joseph Novak, and is a nonfiction account of Russia in the postwar years. Kosinski will publish one more book under Joseph Novak, No Third Path (1963). They both predate Kosinski's first novel, The Painted Bird (1965). ... read more |
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