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Publisher: London : MethuenPublication date: 1918Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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A Really Decent Little Book on Genet
This small volume published by Reaktion Books is a really decent biography on the great writer Jean Genet. Edmund White's masterful biography of course is wonderful, but this little book is something I couldn't put down.It is extremely well organized - and Barber gets Genet down on paper in a very straight forward matter. Not an easy job!

It seems Reaktion's Books series 'Critical Lives' is on a great start.I am looking forward to reading the other titles in this series. ... Read more

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This biography of Genet explores the perverse extremes of his life and writing, and separates the fact from the mythology which was fostered by Genet himself. Edmund White has interviewed lovers, friends, publishers and acquaintances, and has drawn from material, from letters (a number published here for the first time) and other original sources. ... Read more

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Best ever on this author
Deeply impressive, this book tells the story of Jean Genet from sources that Edmund White garnered from all over France. Known first for his poetry, then novels, then his plays, then his works in criticism, Genet was an anomaly in world literature. He endlessly revised his work, sometimes then withdrawing them after many years of them being read and performed. Mercurial, unhappy, he rarely really lived anywhere, but lived around the world in hotel rooms, havinghis mail delivered to his publisher. His life peaked early; his novels were well received as modernist works, and his plays were performed world-wide. After that, he repudiated much of what he'd done, and worked for the downtrodden of the world -- the Palestinians, the Black Panthers. It is an oftentimes touching story, although as a person Genet was not much the icon to be admired. White knows that and while admiring the works, the man is thoroughly examined and is lacking in the final analysis. ... Read more

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Hubert Sorin died in March 1994. For the last year of his life he worked with his lover Edmund White on this humorous portrait of their life together in Paris, and the characters they knew. Proceeds are to be donated to the Terence Higgins Trust. ... Read more

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This literary biography of Marcel Proust provides readers with an insight into the recluse who lay all night long in his cork-lined room, obsessively rewriting his one massive work. It also shows the yearning lonely boy, the brilliant wit - and the miserably closeted homosexual. ... Read more

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Explores expressions of homosexuality in English and American literature. This selection reveals the diffidence and confidence of gay writers. Works by voices of 20th century literature - James Baldwin and Tennessee Williams - are matched by writers of promise - Adam Mars-Jones and David Leavitt. ... Read more

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Publisher: London, Hopkin [and] WilliamsPublication date: 1918Subjects: Chemical tests and reagentsChemistry, AnalyticNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more