- Hardcover: 271 pages
- Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st Edition edition (September 1979)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312597835
- ISBN-13: 978-0312597832
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
Book Description
In a masterpiece of love and loss by one of the world's greatest writers, Fabian travels in his VanHome from one end of the country to the other, searching, judging, and testing--himself most of all.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence
Fabian decided to get a haircut. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Fabian decided to get a haircut. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample PagesConcordance
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars
Polo & Kosinski--A Bad Combo.,
By
This review is from: Passion Play (Paperback)
Painted Bird is on my all time best book list, so after learning that Kosinski had also written about polo--a sport I play & love, I rushed to read it. However, the main character and the baroque & over-the-top violence of the game and sex with a panoply of individuals who might be found in Joel Peter Witkin's photographs gets tiring, and Fabian always remains abstruse at best. If Kosinski desired to shock the polo world, he acheived it--see the other reviews by polo players below--and I do have to give him kudos for that, the image of the average upper-class WASP professional, or better yet macho South American, who bought the book based on polo content, reading the sex scenes does make me laugh. But in the end I'd recommend staying away from this book both from the perspective of a polo lover and Kosinski fan. There is a great novel to be written around polo, but this ain't it.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Polo anyone? Hardly,
By USA Equestrians (Virginia-Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passion Play (Paperback)
As another commenter indicated, this book is written by someone who only wished he was a polo player. It's frighteningly inaccurate and I can't believe that one polo player in the world would agree with the presentations (or should I say misrepresentations) provided within the book. But to focus on the pathetic longings of a man who cannot even understand the rudimentary principles and practices of an elegant and beautiful sport that he wishes to focus his novel on is not even enough...no the content of the book is entirely jumbled with ridiculous sexual escapades merely placed in convenient intervals to titillate domesticated bookworms who may find men and women and transvestites and transsexuals sodomizing each other interesting. Fortunately I didn't buy this book and with the cold weather upon us I now have the kindling I need to start the Yule log--so thanks Jerzy!
2.0 out of 5 stars
The Author In Decline.,
By
This review is from: Passion Play (Paperback)
Passion Play was the beginning of the end for Kozinski, although I give him kudos for trying to step outside of the voyueristic existential drifter of his earlier books; he wouldn't have been able to maintain that forever, and it was beginning to have been rehashed one too many times.However, we get Passion Play instead, an ironic title since it seems devoid of passion unlike his earlier works. This is probably due to the self indulgent & elitist setting of the world of polo (Kozinski's new hobby then) being grafted onto situations like earlier Kozinski novels: it's a bad fit since the earlier protagonists were forced into fight while this one has a choice due to his privelege, and he just seems like a cretin while you want him to do something noble. It gives me the impression that the book was rushed by the author in order to prove that he could break out of the loner stance of his previous books, thus it is a vain work of ego, and not worthy of his talent. Too bad, I think if he'd taken more time, a great book would have been produced.. If you want good Kozinski, start with Being There, Steps, Painted Bird or any of the novels before this one.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
