Steps
Jerzy Kosinski
Grove Press
<p>A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination.</p>Review<p>"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<br></p><p>"Céline and Kafka stand behind this accomplished art. . . . Low-keyed, efficient, controlled." —The New York Times Book Review<br></p><p>"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<br></p><p>"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.<br></p>From the Inside Flap<p>A portrayal of men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination. </p></br></br></br></br>