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Steps [Paperback]

Jerzy Kosinski (Author)

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Publication Date: January 12, 1988

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

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"Kosinski's prose is perfect to his purpose, efficient, detached, lucid as a gem, wholly in command. Steps is a powerful and profoundly disturbing book." —The New York Times

"Céline and Kafka stand behind this accomplished art. . . . Low-keyed, efficient, controlled." —The New York Times Book Review

"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, Kosinski has few equals among American novelists born to the language. And I have also become convinced, after reading Steps, that he is one of the most gifted new figures to appear in our literature for some years." —Irving Howe, Harper's

"Steps is a beautifully written book. It is precise, scrupulous, and poetic. I can think of few writers who are able to so persuasively describe an event, set a scene, communicate an emotion." —Geoffrey Wolff, New Leader.

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

Product Details

Paperback: 148 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1st Vintage contemporaries ed edition (January 12, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394757165
ISBN-13: 978-0394757162
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #721,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece, November 20, 2000

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Kosinski, or the Kosinski committee or whatever it was (Paul Auster is one of many who claim to have been paid to 'fix up' his early drafts), wrote some psychologically fascinating and beautifully written stuff (The Painted Bird, Steps, and to a lesser extent, Cockpit and The Devil Tree) and some really bad stuff (Pinball, The Hermit of Whatever-it-was-th Street). This is probably the best of them all. Buy it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Good book, awful conversion in ebook, September 18, 2011

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The book is good, full of twisted scenes and strange dialogues.
What is terrible is the quality of the ebook conversion, probably made with OCR.
A lot of missing full stops, wrong words (i.e. "real" becomes "red"), and even asterisks when there shouldn't be.
You better buy the paperback version...

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4.0 out of 5 stars Steps, February 25, 2012

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Excellent book, but the Kindle version is rife with typographial errors. An author of Kosinski's stature, a book of this import, deserves better.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A short, freaky ride
Steps is like something a younger, hornier Haruki Murakami might write. You've got these terse, surreal little vignettes that are sort-of-but-not-really linked together, and all... Read more

Published 9 days ago by jafrank

4.0 out of 5 stars Well done
This is a kind of love it or hate it type book, type of prose that some just can't get into. However, if you are into this style of writing, you will enjoy it. Read more

Published 2 months ago by john417

4.0 out of 5 stars A review by Dr. Joseph Suglia
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Jerzy Kosinski did not write his books alone. His authorship has long since been discredited as fraudulent; all of the writings to which... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Joseph Suglia

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To keep things brief, this is not a novel for the average reader. This is a violent, darkly sexual, experimental novel split into a series of extremely short vignettes connected... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Brendon

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Published on July 31, 2008 by Dr. James R. Fisher Jr.

1.0 out of 5 stars a dull recitation
This unstructured novel filled with graphic violence and sex, for all its salacious material, does little to either titillate or instruct the reader with any moral or aesthetic... Read more

Published on May 3, 2007 by Eric Maroney

5.0 out of 5 stars Admit it: you're filthy, too
Riveting, gripping, amazing. If art is, in part, the dance between artist and audience, then Steps is art in its highest form. Read more

Published on November 24, 2005 by Anittah N. Patrick

1.0 out of 5 stars Steps to disappointment
A very adolescent work. Definitely not worth reading, despite the fact that Kosinsky had won an award for this book.

Published on September 5, 2005 by Sabine Von Glinski

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
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Published on August 12, 2005 by David Blanton

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Being There by Jerzy Kosinski in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Blind Date (Kosinski, Jerzy) by Jerzy Kosinski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Passion Play (Kosinski, Jerzy) by Jerzy Kosniski in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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