Critical essays on Jerzy Kosinski /
Lupack, Barbara Tepa.
New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews.  The painted bird.  Everybody's victim / Elie Wiesel ; Poor boy spreads his wings / Anne Halley ; [Review of] The painted bird / Robert Coles -- Steps.  Keys on a ring / Hugh Kenner ; Out of the fires / Stanley Kauffmann ; A moralist's journey into the heart of darkness / Martin Tucker -- Being there.  Jerzy Kosinski : on still being there / William Kennedy ; The fabrication of a culture hero / John W. Aldridge -- The devil tree.  Pulp-fiction style, pop-psychology jargon, and a genuinely sadistic imagination / Robert Alter ; Last brave wish to try everything / Geoffrey Wolff ; New tree, old roots [review of revised and expanded The devil tree / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- Cockpit.  Jerzy Kosinski working out past imperfections / Jonathan Baumbach ; [Review of] Cockpit / Ivan Sanders -- Blind date.  Love and death in New Jersey / Arnost Lustig ; [Review of] Blind date / Daniel J. Cahill -- Passion play.  The aging Kosinski knight, questing on the polo field / Jerome Klinkowitz ; Kosinski's hero rides on / William Lennedy ; When going is the goal / Stefan Kanfer -- Pinball.  Grand Guignol with music / Benjamin DeMott ; Trebles / Stefan Kanfer -- The hermit of 69th Street.  The annotated "Roman à tease" / John Calvin Batchelor ; Kosinski's mask behind the mask / Larry McCaffery --
Interview.  The psychological novelist as portable man / Gail Sheehy -- Essay and articles.  Jerzy Kosinski : retreat from violence / Daniel J. Cahill -- Jerzy Kosinski : the painted bird and other disguises / Gerald Weales -- Horatio Algers of the nightmare / Elizabeth Stone -- The romance of terror and Jerzy Kosinski : Cockpit / Jack Hicks -- Blind date : the resurgence of relationships / Paul Bruss -- Vision and violence in the fiction of Jerzy Kosinski / Paul R. Lilly Jr. -- Betrayed by Jerzy Kosinski / Jerome Klinkowitz -- Chance encounters : bringing Being there to the screen / Barbara Tepa Lupack -- The Kosinski conundrum / Stephen Schiff -- Kosinski's war / James Park Sloan -- Original essays.  Cockpit, Blind date, and Passion play : Kosinski's novel cycle / Norman Lavers -- Is there any history in it? : the fiction of Jerzy Kosinski / Thomas S. Gladsky -- Jerzy Kosinski in fact : a master fabricator's nonfiction / Jerome Klinkowitz.
Kosinski, Jerzy N., 1933-