{"product_id":"jerzy-paperback","title":"Jerzy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A moving attempt to trace the connections between Kosinski's wartime struggles and postwar fictions.\" --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJerzy\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel with a light touch that's still capable of lifting heavy subjects. Charyn knows what he wants to do and knows how to do it. . . . [He] show[s] that all forms of power are pretty much alike, or at least connected--Hollywood, Capitol Hill, Kensington Palace, the Kremlin. Because Kosinski is a figure who proves (if we still need to learn it) that the craziness of American life may have more in common with the craziness of Russia and Europe than we like to think.\" --\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e (Editors' Choice)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerzy Kosinski was a great enigma of post-World War II literature. When he exploded onto the American literary scene in 1965 with his best-selling novel \u003ci\u003eThe Painted Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, he was revered as a Holocaust survivor and refugee from the world hidden behind the Soviet Iron Curtain. He won major literary awards, befriended actor Peter Sellers (who appeared in the screen adaptation of his novel \u003ci\u003eBeing There\u003c\/i\u003e), and was a guest on talk shows and at the Oscars. But soon the facade began to crack, and behind the public persona emerged a ruthless social climber, sexual libertine, and pathological liar who may have plagiarized his greatest works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerome Charyn lends his unmistakable style to this most American story of personal disintegration, told through the voices of multiple narrators--a homicidal actor, a dominatrix, and Joseph Stalin's daughter--who each provide insights into the shifting facets of Kosinski's personality. The story unfolds like a Russian nesting doll, eventually revealing the lost child beneath layers of trauma, while touching on the nature of authenticity, the atrocities of WWII, the allure of sadomasochism, and the fickleness of celebrity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of, most recently, \u003ci\u003eA Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBitter Bronx: Thirteen Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Am Abraham: A Novel of Lincoln and the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJerome Charyn\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eSergeant Salinger\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Perilous Adventures of the Cowboy King: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt and His Times\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJerzy: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century\u003c\/i\u003e. Among other honors, his novels have been selected as finalists for the Firecracker Award and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Charyn has also been named a Commander of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture and received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700431556671,"sku":"9781942658146","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a10cd364226ffe024e15567245d97e19.webp?v=1765016722","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/jerzy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}