Our Lady of the Flowers -- Jean Genet, Paperback

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Our Lady of the Flowers -- Jean Genet, PaperbackJean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel was written while he was in prison. As Sartre recounts in his introduction, Genet penned this work on the brown paper which inmates were supposed to use to fold bags as a form of occupational therapy. The masterpiece he managed to produce under those difficult conditions is a lyrical

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