Word: kosinski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Blind Date, Jerzy Kosinski Daniel Martin, John Fowles The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carre The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison...
FICTION: Blind Date, Jerzy Kosinski...
George Levanter never hesitates before accepting a "blind date." As the hero of Jerzy Kosinski's latest novel, Blind Date, he would violate the author's entire notion of how life should be lived if he were...
...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...
Denying the possibility of a plot, Kosinski relies on this smorgasbord of exciting incidents and fascinating characters to retain the reader's interest, unfortunately, only a few of Kosinski's characters are on stage long enough to develop into interesting individuals. The rest become props for the protagonist to use and discard...