num_pages: 728
description: Bastard, thief, prostitute, jailbird, Jean Genet was one of French literature's sacred monsters. in works from 'Our Lady of the Flowers' to 'The Screens', he created a scandalous personal mythology while savaging the conventions of his society. His career was a series of calculated shocks marked by feuds, rootlessness, and the embrace of unpopular causes and outcast peoples. Now this most enigmatic of writers has found his ideal biographer in novelist Edmund White, whose eloquent and often poignant chronicle does justice to the unruly narrative of Genet's life even as it maps the various worlds in which he lived and the perverse landscape of his imagination.
language: English
title: Genet
titlecomplete: Genet
genres: American, France, Biography, LGBT, Queer, Gay, Literature, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 683
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Biography/Autobiography, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Vintage