Genet a Biography by White, Edmund by White, Edmund

KNOPF. NY 1993, 1993-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. .

Knopf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1993. First American Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0394571711 . First American Edition, second printing. Very good hardcover. Clean bright unmarked pages with a firm binding. Some minor shelfwear to DJ and to covers including some edge wear. DJ now protected in mylar. ; 9.10 X 6.20 X 1.80 inches; 728 pages .

Moderate wear

In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full-scale life of one of the great -- and controversial -- figures of twentieth-century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a 'thug of genius', as Simone de Beauvoir called him.Moving from Genet's illegitimate birth in 1910 to his foster childhood in a farming village in central France, Edmund White explores the early milieu that transformed an inherently theatrical child into a petty criminal and prodigiously original writer, whose most startling creation may have been his invention of himself. Accused of stealing and running away, Genet was sent to reform school at Mettray, where his imagination flourished under the spell of an all-male communal life and his first homosexual experiences. In the 1930s, he deserted from the army and travelled in Europe as a vagabond, prostitute and thief, always on the lam from the police and the military. In 1942, he emerged from one of… Read More

Vintage. Good+. 1994. Paperback. 0679754792 . Good overall condition. General wear. No major blemishes. No writing. .

Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American Edition. Number stamped on front fly, else near fine in a nearly fine dustwrapper with a few very short tears on edges.

Knopf, New York, 1993. First edition. Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket. Book has a little bowing, dust jacket has some light edge creasing near spine.In this revelatory biography of Jean Genet, we have the first full scale life of one of the great and controversial figures of twentieth century literature. Edmund White shows us the writer in all his permutations: poet, dandy, homosexual, thief; a "thug of genius", as Simone de Beauvoir called him.

New York; Alfred A. Knope; 1993.. Thick Med. 8vo; pp. xliv, 727, (1); illustrated with 20 pages of b/w. photographic plates, chronology, reference editions notes, works by Jean Genet, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy.

New York: Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0394571711 . 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.8 inches; 728 pages .