About this title: This nightmarish account of prison life during the German occupation of France is dominated by the figure of the condemned murderer Harcamone, who takes root and bears unearthly blooms in the ecstatic and brooding imagination of his fellow prisoner Genet.
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Edition: 3rd
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press, N. Y.
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The book has very light shelf wear....Some of the pages has some underlining..................We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by..... read more
Binding: MASS-MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1965
Description: GOOD. Book is tightly bound and lies flat; has minor cover rubbing, with minor edge and corner wear; spine is creased a couple times; page edges are starting to brown with age. read more
Description: Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. NY: Grove Press, (1967). First Evergreen Black Cat edition. Black Cat book #B-145. Near very good. Softcover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802130884ISBN:0802130887
Description: Good. Used item may show library stamps, stickers and marks. Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. 344 pp. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. 1st. printing. Appears unread. Pages a little yellowed. In discolored & edgeworn jacket. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book and dust jacket have light wear only. Previous owner name stamped on ffep. New clear mylar dust jacket cover added. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Evergreen Black Cat edition
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very close to fine and bright pictorial stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp text throughout. Publisher's card still in centerpiece. read more
Edition: Not Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Castle Books, Grove Press Inc.
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. This was translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. This is Jean Genet's second novel. The story is set in the French State prison of Fontevrault during the German Occupation. Much of Genet's life was spent in and out of reformatories and prisons until France's leading artists and writers came to his aid. This book is in great shape and does not appear to have been read. There is a discolored spot the size of a small price sticker ... read more
"The Bad Boy of French literature and this guy can really write. Although I now must go back and read his first novels (Our Lady of the Flowers and Thief's Journal) this title certainly gave me a insight into the author. Although highly recommended, Genet writes from prison and the subject is the beauty and dignity that is created, often artificially, in an austere, dangerous, cruel, fetid world of confinement and punishment; more specifically, you will know more about man-man prison sex than you might care to know."
"Probably my least favorite of the Genet's novels. Although this may have had to do with the dated translation of slang, I found the trajectory of the plot to be a little unsatisfying. This novel mingles the exaltation and abjection in which the narrator revels of the men of Founterevault prison and the boys of the juvenile correctional colony, Mettray.
May have been the inspiration for one of three episodes in Todd Haynes' film Poison."
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