Overview
'A beautifully written, dreamlike book . A story of sex, crime and death, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.
''A beautifully written, dreamlike book . . . A true outlaw artist.'' Bobby Gillespie, The Times
Our Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet’s masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker side of Montmartre, a world of pimps, thieves, prostitutes, queens and blackmailers, where ‘morality’ in the common sense of the word has no meaning. The story of Divine, a drag-queen prostitute, is interwoven with that of one of his lovers, a young man due to be arrested for murder. A story of sex, crime and death, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.
- | Author: M. Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman
- | Publisher: Faber & Faber
- | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2019
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780571340828
- | ISBN-10: 0571340822
