Passion Play

**By the author of *The Painted Bird* and *Being There* the story of a roving polo player who seeks fulfillment through transgression: "his best novel yet" ( *The Harvard Crimson* ).**

William Kennedy wrote in *The Washington Post* that "the Kosinski hero is unique in literature, as recognizable as the Hemingway hero used to be." In *Passion Play* *, Kosinski conjures* Fabian, perhaps the most romantic, violent, and lust-driven hero of them all. A modern knight-errant of his own moral code, Fabian roams America in his custom-built VanHome, his refuge, transport, and stable for his two horses.

His livelihood is polo--not the millionaire's team sport, but the life-threatening duel of clashing horsemen. The prize is more than money and honor; it is the awareness of having drawn upon every resource of body and mind, of man and horse in danger.

*Passion Pl* ay is a masterpiece of violence and seduction, love and loss, by one of the world's greatest writers.