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product_id: 9393239
title: "Being There"
brand: "jerzy kosinski"
price: "B/.44"
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reviews_count: 13
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# Being There

**Brand:** jerzy kosinski
**Price:** B/.44
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Being There by jerzy kosinski
- **How much does it cost?** B/.44 with free shipping
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## Description

Being There

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    easy to enjoy similar to the movie
  

*by K***S on Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023*

Enjoyed the movie for years. Decided to read the original and enjoyed learning background on Chance.Writer has an easy flow and I will pick up more of his novellas.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Being There
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2012*

A venerable old lawyer dies, and the executors of his estate find an odd man wandering around his house. Chance Gardiner claims to have been tending the garden ("Gardiner," get it?) since he was a little boy, yet there are no records of his employment. Chance has no contract, no pay stubs, no ID. He has no mother, no father, no family. His name is Chance "because he had been born by chance." He has no existence outside the garden and no knowledge of the outside world that doesn't come from his television. He's adopted and introduced into high society by a rich woman who runs over him with her car. Chance proceeds to impress the members of the loftiest sociopolitical strata who see him as a genius and an expert on pretty much everything despite his oft-professed desire to simply watch TV. His cheery optimism and ability to talk a lot without actually saying anything (Conservative friends, insert your Obama jokes here) propel Chance into the upper echelons of money and politics, an empty and empty-headed symbol of power (Liberal friends, insert your George Dubya jokes here). Suggesting that our politicians are vacant vessels and that our celebrity-obsessed culture feeds off vapidity is hardly revelatory, but that doesn't make Jerzy Kosinski's sharp little novel any less pointed or accurate. In fact, DC life went on to imitate art. Thirty-odd years after "Being There" was published, Dubya unwittingly echoed Chance's innocent declaration of ignorance: "I don't read newspapers." A fawning media usher Chance into prominence in much the same way that Barack Obama took office almost 40 years later. Today, "Being There" almost reads like straight-faced biography. As politicians and pundits continue to grow ever more cartoonishly ridiculous, is there anything left to satirize?

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    #Anti-climax
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2022*

A very well written and entertaining novella, but the abrupt, yet still anti-climatical, ending made me think the author lost the final chapter or two on the one way to the publisher.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-24*