Steps [Paperback]

Jerzy Kosinski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 7, 1997

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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Editorial Reviews

Review

"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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press; 1st Grove Press Ed edition (August 7, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802135269
• ISBN-13: 978-0802135261
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #425,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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

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This review is from: Steps (Paperback)

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...

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

This review is from: Steps (Paperback)

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars Well done, November 29, 2011

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This review is from: Steps (Paperback)

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. A good short read. It's very reminiscent of Kafka.