Big Reject

This? You mean this is the illustrious, National Book Awarded Jerzy Kosinski? I haven’t felt so chapfallen since I found out that Salisbury steak was no more than a social climbing Quarter Pounder. Oh, I’ll confess it (with relief now): I didn’t read Steps or The Painted Bird. But Passion Play is affidavit enough: no one could write with such shabbiness, with such consistent and painstaking negligence, unless he had