Steps
by Jerzy Kosinski
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Evansville, Indiana, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bantam N4719
Both covers are shiny with minor scrapes on the back cover and a small crease on the front cover.
The spine appears to be unread.
The pages are still tight and intact. No writing or tears on the pages.
Owners signature inside front cover.
Synopsis
Jerzy Kosiński was an award-winning Polish-American novelist. His novel, Steps , was the 1969 winner of the National Book Awards. This novel is comprised of a series of loosely connected vignettes. The book is meant to be shocking and brought the author close to celebrity status after winning the award. Steps begins with the narrator going to a zoo to see an octopus that is slowly killing itself by consuming its own tentacles. The piece ends with the narrator discovering that a woman he’s picked up off the street is actually a man. While some of the vignettes are connected to each other, some are not, but all of them are marked by concrete prose and lucidity of the narrative. The book explores themes of horror, repression, alienation, isolation and anxiety.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mark's Vintage Paperbacks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2024-03-27-04
- Title
- Steps
- Author
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 6th
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VINTAGE PAPERBACK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Paperbacks; Cover Art;