num_pages: 864
description: 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 TimesInterviewing 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.
language: English
title: Genet
titlecomplete: Genet
genres: LGBT, France, Gay, History, Biography Memoir, Biography, Literature, American, Nonfiction, Queer
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