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Genet

Edmund White

2

awards won

28

score

#39 of 3,809 books · #20 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1993) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (1993). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Genet won the National Book Critics Circle Award. A meticulously researched biography of Jean Genet, one of France's most notorious writers. 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.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307764492
Topics
Jean Genet's lifeFrench literatureHomosexuality and crime

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