Being There
Pocketbok. Transworld. 1992.
Mycket gott skick.
The hero of this astonishing novel is called Chance- he may be the man of tomorrow. Flung into the real world when his rich benefactor dies, Chance is helped on his life journey by Elizabeth Eve, the young, beautiful, resourceful wife of a dying Wall Street mogul. Accidentally launched into a world of sex, money, power - and national television - he becomes a media superstar, a household name, the man of the hour - and, who knows, perhaps the next President of the United States of America.
"Kosinski is one of the handful of important writers to arrive since the war...Being There is dense with enough images, complexities and ironies to keep scholars busy long past their graduation... the laughter he evokes from us is both a purgative- and a warning."
LIFE
"Being There is a reverse parable, highly polished and patterned to the last twitch of the nerves. It is a highly
effective send-up of the metaphor world, where growth and seed-com are the familiar jargon of the concrete jungle."
THE GUARDIAN
"Not until you put the book down do you realize how chilling is the image of ourselves in Kosinski's mirror... it will survive as a seminal work of the seventies."
SATURDAY REVIEW.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780552990370
- Titel
- Being There
- Författare
- Kosinski, Jerzy
- Förlag
- Transworld
- Utgivningsår
- 1983
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 128 x 196 mm Ryggbredd 8 mm
- Vikt
- 85 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
Ytterligare författare: Kosinski, Jerzy
