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GENET, JEAN, AND FRECHTMAN, BERNARD (TRANSLATED BY) The Blacks: A Clown Show
New York, Grove Press; Evergreen Original. 1960, 8th printing. Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 128 pp.; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. "Jean Genet was born in Paris in 1910. After being abandoned by his twenty-two-year-old unwed mother when he was seven months old, he became a ward of the state. At thirteen Genet was sent to a vocational school run by the state welfare system. He ran away almost immediately, beginning a series of escapades, failed foster-home placements, and arrests for petty crimes that ended with his incarceration in a penal institution for boys. In 1948, condemned to life imprisonment, Genet was pardoned by the president of France at the behest of the country's most eminent writers. Canonized by Jean-Paul Sartre and called 'rotten with genius' by Louis Ferdinand Céline, Genet is the author of the novels Our Lady of the Flowers, The Thief's Journal, Funeral Rites, Miracle of the Rose, and Querelle, as well as numerous plays, including The Blacks, The Screens, The Maids, Deathwatch, and The Balcony. He died in 1986." - Publisher. Good.
Offered for US$ 3.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 018794