''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 meaningThe 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.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
320 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Faber & Faber |
Utgivningsdatum |
2019-03-07 |
ISBN |
9780571340828 |