1. Jerzy Kosinski The Painted Bird

Contents • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] The middle-aged and simple-minded Chance lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in He has spent his whole life tending the garden and has never left the property. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television.

When his benefactor dies, Chance naively tells the lawyers that he has no claim against the estate and is ordered to move out. Chance wanders aimlessly, discovering the outside world for the first time. Passing by a TV shop, he sees himself captured by a camera in the shop window. Entranced, he steps backward off the sidewalk and is struck by a chauffeured car owned by Ben Rand, an elderly business mogul. In the car is Rand's much younger wife, Eve, who mishears 'Chance, the gardener', in reply to the question who he is, as 'Chauncey Gardiner'. Eve brings Chance to their home to recover.

Jerzy Kosinski The Painted Bird

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He is wearing expensive tailored clothes from the 1920s and '30s, which his benefactor had allowed him to take from the attic, and his manners are old-fashioned and courtly. When Ben Rand meets him, he takes 'Chauncey' for an upper-class, highly educated businessman who has fallen on hard times. Rand admires him, finding him direct, wise and insightful. 2002 fifa world cup game. Rand is also a confidant and adviser to the President of the United States, whom he introduces to 'Chauncey'.