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Being there is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of american media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever. Jerzy kosinski won frances best foreign book award for the. The old mans house is located somewhere in new york city. Kosinski, 1972, bantam books edition, in english bantam ed. Click read now pdf download, get it for free, register 100% easily.
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