pickHot streak continues on my reading list with the winner of the 1968 National Book Award, the little known novel STEPS by Jerzy Kosinski. I can say, categorically, this would have been 2008 Ross's favorite book. Incredibly violent and disturbing vignettes of unknown men and women escaping themselves through sex and desire.
A book about our faulted memories as it relates to our own moral character. This passage sums it up beautifully.
pickHalfway through this death-spiral and I'm in awe of how Winslow manipulates narrative and pacing and urgency. Not much current action has taken place, but all of it is conflict and heated action. It feels, promisingly, like the second half of the book is gonna explode, shotguningly.
