Word: domostroy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andrea Kosinski wants to meet him. She says that because she is his public she has a right to. Goddard remembers that John Lennon's public killed him and continues hiding his identity even from his parents. To unmask Goddard, Andre enlists the unlikely help of Patrick Domostroy, a once prominent classical composer perfectly content at being reduced to playing the piano at a "pinball joint that tries to pass for a nightclub." Like most of Kosinski's heros, Domostroy lives on the fringes of normal morality and society. In an abandoned ballroom in the South Bronx, he spends...
...Pinball's four major characters, Kosinski is most comfortable with Domostroy, and he puts a lot of himself--including his Eastern European origins--into his composer turned detective. Like his creator, who played Grigory Zinoviev in Reds, Domostroy at the height of his popularity once played "a Russian composer in an epic Hollywood film...
More than anything. Domostroy inherits Kosinski's well-known sexual obsessions. In the book, Andrea buys Domostroy's help with her body and a closet full of costumes and toys, and their gymnastic encounters as well as most everyone else's are pointedly detailed. In real life, Kosinski makes no attempt to hide his personal obsession and is a frequent visitor to private New York sex clubs...
...about them easily. But although he has obviously learned rock music, he seems to lack the familiarity to write believably about it or the guns and violence he forces into the final chapter. He devises a plot that is convincing, though dependent on a couple of questionable coincidences, concerning Domostroy and Andrea's plot to discover Goddard's identity. The trouble is that he doesn't know what to do once he has. Unlike his novel Being There, which dragged out its single idea for 15 pages too many, Pinball disintegrates, as the author destroys the whole subtlety...
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