Abstract
Jerzy Kosinski's last novel, The Hermit of 69th Street, was greeted with disappointment and even disdain. Reviewers called it “cranky self-justification,” “self-indulgent,” and “sophomoric.” Phoebe-Lou Adams, writing in The Atlantic, described the work as “what a novelist usually, and mercifully, canies in his head but omits from his fiction.” New York Times reviewer John Calvin Batchelor called the novel Kosinski's “revenge against docu-slander,” refemng to The Village Voice controversy and to repeated implications over the years that Kosinski's writings are more than the product of his own mind and pen.
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