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Steps | Jerzy Kosinski

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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which his life has been woven. Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement brilliantly captures the disturbing undercurrents of modern politics and culture. In this haunting novel, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity. Kosinski portrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination in his unforgettable and immensely provocative work.

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Steps | Jerzy Kosinski

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Kosinski is an excellent writer: spare, concise, intense. This book troubled me; vignettes are populated with a character (characters? …never named) alienated and often lost. There is frank conversation as the narrator moves in stark, sexual situations that sometimes shock and always disconcert. The novel is challenging & uncompromising & daring. I needed walks to ponder what I‘ve read, ideas of isolation & desperate need for connection. Striking.

Suet624 He is a troubled person. 2y

Suet624 Came by to see how you‘re doing. Miss seeing your reviews. 2y

Hamlet @Suet624 Thanks for checking. I just took a break from social-media posting. I‘ll be back with a couple of reviews pretty soon. 2y

Suet624 @Hamlet oh good. See you soon. 💕 2y

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Steps | Jerzy Kosinski

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Hot streak continues on my reading list with the winner of the 1968 National Book Award, the little known novel STEPS by Jerzy Kosinski. I can say, categorically, this would have been 2008 Ross's favorite book. Incredibly violent and disturbing vignettes of unknown men and women escaping themselves through sex and desire.

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