1996 hardcover with dust jacket and 505 pages in good secondhand condition.

He was one of the world's great writers & intellectuals, acclaimed as a heroic survivor & witness of the Holocaust. He won high literary awards, made the bestseller lists, lectured in prestigious universities, & was feted in high society. Then, in an expose that sent shock waves throughout the intellectual community, he was denounced as a CIA tool, a supreme con man, & a literary fraud, igniting a firestorm of controversy that consumed his reputation & culminated in his headline-making suicide. This compelling biography cuts to the complex heart of the truth about the man & the myth that was Jerzy Kosinski.