The classic story of an innocent who changes the world
Jerzy Kosinski won France's Best Foreign Book Award for The Painted
Bird, the National Book Award in Fiction for Steps, and received
the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters'
Award in Literature. He is also the author of Being There, The
Devil Tree, Cockpit, Blind Date, Passion Play and Pinball, and of
several non-fiction works. His books have been translated into most
major languages.
Mr Kosinski taught English at Wesleyan, Princeton and Yale
Universities. He was the President of the American Center of
P.E.N., an association of writers and editors, and was active in
many human rights organisations. He died in 1991.
'Not until you put the book down do you realize how chilling is the
image of ourselves in Kosinski's mirror...It will survive as a
seminal work'
*Saturday Review*
'Chance, a fabulous creature of our age'
*Time*
'Being There is a reverse parable, highly polished and patterned to
the last twitch of the nerves'
*Guardian*
'A tantalizing knuckle ball of a book delivered with perfectly
timed satirical hops and metaphysical flutters'
*Time*
'Extremely well written. Under the circumstances, I can only urge
as many people as possible to rush out and buy it'
*Spectator*
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