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<p>This National Book Award–winning novel of power, libido, and morality is "a powerful and profoundly disturbing book" ( The New York Times ). First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski's classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captured the deviant undercurrents of the era's 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. "Céline and Kafka stand behind this accomplished art" from the celebrated author of The Painted Bird and Being There ( The New York Times Book Review ). "A collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever." —David Foster Wallace "Kosinski's prose is perfect to his purpose, efficient, detached, lucid as a gem, wholly in command." — The New York Times "By some miracle of training, which recalls the linguistic bravado of Conrad and Nabokov, he is already a master of pungent and disciplined English prose. Simply as a stylist, Kosins

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Author
Kosinski, Jerzy
Publisher
Grove Press
Published
2001
Language
EN
ISBN
9780802195746
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Erotica
Rating
3.79 / 5 (47 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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