num_pages: 148
description: Winner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the esteemed author of the classics The Painted Bird and Being There comes this award-winning novel about one man's sexual and sensual experiences, the fabric from which his life has been woven.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 portrays men and women both aroused and desensitized by an environment that disdains the individual and seeks control over the imagination in his unforgettable and immensely provocative work.
language: English
title: Steps
titlecomplete: Steps
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, American, Polish Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Poland, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3486
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Grove Press