Bibliographical Description
88.01.W044: Kosinski – Steps
JERZY KOSINSKI | [rule 78 mm] | STEPS | Vintage Contemporaries | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York
80 leaves, pp. [8] 1–2 3-148 [4]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, January 1988
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-148 Steps, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a blank, χ2b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Chris Moore; interior author photo by Scientia Factum.
Copyright: © 1968. ISBN: 0-394-75716-5. Price: $5.95. Steps was first published by Random House 1968.
Copies: JDP 1.4, with other images consulted online
Blurbs
- (front cover) A powerful and profoundly disturbing book…reminiscent of the painting of Bosch…Kosinski’s prose is perfect to his purpose, lucid as a gem. – The New York Times
- Jerzy Kosinski’s classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement brilliantly captures the disturbing undercurrents of modern politics and culture. In this haunting novel, distinctions are eroded between oppressor and oppressed, perpetrator and victim, narcissism and anonymity. Kosinski protrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination in this unforgettable and immensely provocative work.
- Céline and Kafka stand behind this accomplished art….Low keyed, efficient, controlled, the prose of Steps encompasses the banal, the picturesque, the monstrous….Scene illuminates adjacent scene; vignette after vignette stays in the memory. – Hugh Kenner, The New York Times Book Review
- 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
- More than a novel, this is a collection of erotic reminiscences, a log of the outrageous. – Newsweek