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The Painted Bird
By
Jerzy Kosinski
First published in 1965
Featured book published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Paperback: 256 pages
ISBN: 080213422X
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A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II, this classic novel, originally published in 1965, is a dark masterpiece that examines the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is the first, and the most famous, novel by one of the most important and original writers of this century.
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About Jerzy Kosinski
"We did not live in an age of truth - certain lies are essential for survival," recalls a refugee drag artist in Davey Holmes' gripping often unsettling tale of a super-ego tricked into tragic decline. And author and celebrity Jerzy Kozinski certainly survived well in his adopted America.
He became a well-known guru of literature and the talk-show circuit after penning not only tomes like 1965's The Painted Bird, an "autobiographical fiction" about his experiences as a Jewish child in Nazi Poland during the Second World War, but also 1971's Being There - made into a Oscar-winning movie with Peter Sellars two years later. Yet a wave of accusations that he was merely another Munchausen led to creative demise and his subsequent suicide in 1991.
Selected Works by Jerzy Kosinski
- The Painted Bird
- Being There
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"Of all the remarkable fiction that emerged from World War II, nothing stands higher than Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird. A magnificent work of art, and a celebration of the individual will. No one who reads it will forget it; no one who reads it will be unmoved by it. ThePainted Bird enriches our literature andour lives." -- The Miami Herald
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