Jerzy Kosinski
1) Steps
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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...
3) Being there
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of Chauncey Gardiner--Chance--an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy advisor, and a media icon.
5) Reds
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
6) Being there
Series
Criterion collection volume 864
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé's horticultural mumblings...
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