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Genet: A Biography
Winner:National Book Critics Circle Award -Biography (1993)
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. "Dazzling. Genet has found a scrupulous, meticulous chronicler in Edmund White." -- Philip Henscher, The Guardian Acclaimed novelist and essayist Edmund White illuminates Genet's experiences in the worlds of crime, homosexuality, politics, and high culture, and gives a compelling analysis of Genet's plays, novels, and essays.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Oct 4th, 1994
- Pages: 800
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.10in - 2.10in - 1.95lb
- EAN: 9780679754794
- Categories: • Literary Figures• LGBTQ+• Criminals & Outlaws
About the Author
Edmund White was born in Cincinnati in 1940. His previous books include Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, States of Desire: Travels in Gay America, A Boy's Own Story, Caracole and The Beautiful Room Is Empty. He lives in Paris.
Praise for this book
'Dazzling. Genet has found a scrupulous, meticulous chronicler in Edmund White.' -- Philip Henscher, The Guardian 'An absorbing and magisterial biography...a labor of love in every sense. A comparable achievement [is] Richard Ellmann's biography of Oscar Wilde.' -- John Bayley, The Evening Standard 'Elegant, meticulous and wholly satisfying.' -- Brian Masters, The Sunday telegraph 'White has caught the uncatchable man -- the public Genet as well as the recluse: no better praise can be given a biographer.' -- Paul Bailey, The Daily Telegraph