Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography
5 journalers for this copy...
"Fascinating, vivid, compelling", says Christopher Lehman-Haupt of the New York Times and I agree.
A most mysterious, somewhat sinister man who captured the imagination of many and hobnobbed with the rich and famous, he comitted suicide in New York in 1991. This thorough, well researched and documented biography offers you a view of Jerzy Kosinski, the Polish author and polo player and actor.
A most mysterious, somewhat sinister man who captured the imagination of many and hobnobbed with the rich and famous, he comitted suicide in New York in 1991. This thorough, well researched and documented biography offers you a view of Jerzy Kosinski, the Polish author and polo player and actor.
Found this book in my mailbox - what a friendly postman I have ;-) I have started reading it almost immediately and it seems promising... What a pity I am so busy at the moment that I do not have a lot of time to read!
My big question is: will reading this biography stimulate me to _finally_ go read The painted bird - which I am warned against?
I will post again after I finished the book...
AND HERE I AM AGAIN, AT LAST. I have been delaying because I find it hard to get my thoughts together about Kosinski. But that must stop: I will just begin writing and see where my keyboard is leading me ;-)
As said, I was warned against reading The painted bird because people who know me also knew I would be very upset & disgusted by it. Not that I am such a sensitive soul; I just hate cruelty, sexism and injustice. So I was not pleased to find out that Kosinski was 'no amiable person', so to say. But James Park Sloan manages to picture him as a HUMAN BEING: an opportunist, self-centered man with tics and a dark side that you can still feel for. I can understand how he came to be Jerzy Kosinski. And I feel sad for him in a way, but it is Park Sloan's achievement that I view Kosinski not as a victim, but as someone who tried to live and create as well as he could.
I think I will go and read The painted bird. And 'the world' will have to wait for the real release of this book, because I am passing it on to nokawa. He's the one who got Kosinski's Being there and The painted bird in the house.
My big question is: will reading this biography stimulate me to _finally_ go read The painted bird - which I am warned against?
I will post again after I finished the book...
AND HERE I AM AGAIN, AT LAST. I have been delaying because I find it hard to get my thoughts together about Kosinski. But that must stop: I will just begin writing and see where my keyboard is leading me ;-)
As said, I was warned against reading The painted bird because people who know me also knew I would be very upset & disgusted by it. Not that I am such a sensitive soul; I just hate cruelty, sexism and injustice. So I was not pleased to find out that Kosinski was 'no amiable person', so to say. But James Park Sloan manages to picture him as a HUMAN BEING: an opportunist, self-centered man with tics and a dark side that you can still feel for. I can understand how he came to be Jerzy Kosinski. And I feel sad for him in a way, but it is Park Sloan's achievement that I view Kosinski not as a victim, but as someone who tried to live and create as well as he could.
I think I will go and read The painted bird. And 'the world' will have to wait for the real release of this book, because I am passing it on to nokawa. He's the one who got Kosinski's Being there and The painted bird in the house.
Not gonna finish it. To be released at the opening of OBCZ-Hartlooper.
Journal Entry 4 by nokawa at Hartloopercomplex, Ledig Erf in Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands on Sunday, May 21, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (5/21/2006 UTC) at Hartloopercomplex, Ledig Erf in Utrecht, Utrecht Netherlands
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Zal worden losgelaten op de officiële openingsmeeting van OBCZ-Hartlooper.
Zal worden losgelaten op de officiële openingsmeeting van OBCZ-Hartlooper.
This will be the first biography in the OBCZ if I'm not mistaken. The book is currently residing at dutch-flybaby's and will go the OBCZ as soon as possible.
Journal Entry 6 by OBCZ-Kaketoe at OBCZ-Kaketoe (gesloten) in Ede, Gelderland Netherlands on Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (5/23/2006 UTC) at OBCZ-Kaketoe (gesloten) in Ede, Gelderland Netherlands
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES: I left this book at the OBCZ today.
van dutch-flybabe gekregen voor de nieuwe obcz in Utrecht!
