The devil tree

Literature & Fiction

KOSINSKI, Jerzy

Literary

Arrow Books

Steps

A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination.

Contemporary

The Bodley Head

Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013Jerzy Kosinski’s clever parable of a naive man thrust into the modern world is more pointed now than ever. Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, The Graduate), perhaps best known for his portrayals of vulnerable characters and antiheroes, gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture.Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon due to his unknown background and vague, yet appealing, conversational nature. Being There was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, starring Peter Sellers as Chance, in 1979.Being There is part of Audible’s A-List Collection, featuring the world’s most celebrated actors narrating distinguished works of literature that each star helped select.

BEING THERE.

Bodley Head (1971)

Scenes recalled by the protagonist reveal his unfeeling acceptance of violence and cruel behavior being inflicted on others

Modern Library

When the war separates a youth from his parents he begins a terrible odyssey of suffering as he wanders from village to village

Painted Bird

A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination.

Vintage

Blind Date

. 8vo pp. 236 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Molto Buono (Very Good)

Houghton/Mifflin

Hermit of 69th Street

United States

Random House Value Publishing

Passing By

The Painted Bird

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The devil tree

Steps

BEING THERE.

Steps

Painted Bird

Steps

Blind Date

Hermit of 69th Street

Passing By

The Painted Bird