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Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers
Author: Jean Genet
Amazon Synopsis: — Our Lady of the Flowers was written in a French prison on brown paper from which the convicts were supposed to make paper bags. Its eventual publication by Gallimard put Jean Genet immediately into the front rank of those French writers who expressed their genius through their understanding of the human condition at its lowest....  more »
ISBN: 324691
Publication Date: 1973
Pages: 284
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Book Type: Paperback
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Jean Genet wrote this book an napkins while he was in prison. The guards discovered it and destroyed it when he was almost finished, so Jean started again from scratch. This is a fantastic, beautifully written book.


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