- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (19 April 1982)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099279606
- ISBN-13: 978-0099279600
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,232,693 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tarden considers the task of catching his lover with another man a mere diversion compared to his more serious spying activities.
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Although we have known each other for a long time and have spoken often, we have never spoken intimately. Read the first page
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0 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The thoroughful application of skills acquired in comunism to social situations of western capitalism. In depth description of will to overpower others in survivalist approach to everyday life. Maserfull description of mind operation of people who chnge cultures - societies during their adult life.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
A good representation
11 April 2004
Format:Paperback
It's hard to decide which of Kosinski's vignette-based novels is the best, since they're all fairly similiar, and passages are interchangeable. There are slight varitations in theme - the protagonist of The Painted Bird is a child, and in Blind Date you have an investor, while in The Devil Tree you have a wealthy young man, but on the whole each one is as good as another. Considering it, though, I think that Cockpit is the best overall, with some of the most interesting vignettes and the most consistently good writing, and one of the stronger protagonists. It's also the only Kosinski book which I can really say shocked me - usually, I'm prepared for the horrible things which his characters do to each other, remembering that it is Kosinski even when things seem to be going well, but there's an episode in Cockpit involving the elderly which took me by surprise. I reccomend this as an introduction to Kosinski's work, or, if you only read one, make it this.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Kosinski continues his mastery of the vignette novel.
28 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
Kosinski's portrait of an ex CIA agent with a knack for controlling others is disturbing, diabolical, and ultimately entertaining. Tarden is both socially and sexually disfunctional, yet somehow we can all identify with him. Kosinski creates an obsessive depressive character with Gatsby-esque personal drive. Well worth the read.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Enter the cockpit if you dare!
16 Oct 1998
Format:Paperback
When you are in the cockpit you have total and absolute control over hundreds of lives. You can do with them what you wish. If you choose, you could end every life or just give them a good scare. In Jerzy Kosinski's novel "Cockpit" the hero - Tarden - is always in the cockpit, always in control. This book makes you realize how easy it is for a total stranger to, through a few mundane manipulations, have your entire life in his hands. A chilling thought indeed.
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