Search Results for: “M. Jean Genet”

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...

"One of the greatest achievements of modern literature." -Richard Howard "A major achievement . . . . Genet transforms experiences of degradation into spiri tual exercises and hoodlums into bearers...

One afternoon in 1976, teenagers Jean and Tom share an almost imperceptible look across the grounds of Compton Manor, a boarding school for boys with problems. Their gaze marks a...

Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an...