
Genet
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Biography exploring the perverse extremes of Genet's life and writing, incorporating interviews with lovers and friends.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF A BOY'S OWN STORY AND THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY 'A superb introduction to the great novelist and playwright vagabond thief and convict and to the brutal childhood from which he mined his remarkable vision' J G Ballard Books of the Year Sunday Times Interviewing lovers friends publishers and acquaintances Edmund White draws from material letters (a number published here for the first time) and other original sources to explore the perverse extremes of Jean Genet's life and writing. Separating the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself White's portrait is a deftly painted celebration of French Literature's most modern rogue.