BOOKS BY JERZY KOSINSKI
NOVELS
The Painted Bird
Steps
Being There
The Devil Tree
Cockpit
Blind Date
Passion Play
Pinball
The Hermit of 69th Street
ESSAYS
Passing By
Notes of the Author
The Art of the Self
NONFICTION
(Under the pen name Joseph Novak)
The Future Is Ours, Comrade
No Third Path
To the memory of my wife Mary Hayward Weir
without whom even the past would
lose its meaning
and only God,
omnipotent indeed,
knew they were mammals
of a different breed.
MAYAKOVSKY
This new edition of The Painted Bird incorporates some
material that did not appear in the first edition.