Our Lady Of The Flowers Av M. Jean Genet

<p><b>''A beautifully written, dreamlike book . . . A true outlaw artist.'' Bobby Gillespie,<i> The Times</i></b><br><i><br>Our Lady of the Flowers</i>, often considered Genet’s masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker side of Montmartre, a world of pimps, thieves, prostitutes, queens and blackmailers, where ‘morality’ in the common sense of the word has no meaning. The story of Divine, a drag-queen prostitute, is interwoven with that of one of his lovers, a young man due to be arrested for murder. A story of sex, crime and death, <i>Our Lady of the Flowers</i> is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.</p>