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Deathwatch by Jean Genet
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.62Three young convicts share a cell. Locked into a world of dangerous rivalries, criminals Lefranc and Maurice compete for the attention of the charismatic condemned man, Green-Eyes.Informed by his own... -
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and... -
Querelle by Jean Genet 9780802151575
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151575Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet 9780802128270
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802128270Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Thief's Journal by M. Jean Genet
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and... -
Jean Genet by Stephen Barber 9781861891785
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48This title includes an introduction by Edmund White. This new short biography and critical work cuts directly to the essence of Genet's life, a life of extraordinary spectacle that was always... -
Prisoner Of Love by Jean Genet 9781590170281
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170281Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint -
The Crime of Jean Genet Dominique Edde 9780857423399
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $19.77Dominique Edde met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence," she writes, "gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full,... -
Our Lady of the Flowers by M. Jean Genet
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'A beautifully written, dreamlike book . . . A true outlaw artist.' Bobby Gillespie, The TimesOur Lady of the Flowers, often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison... -
The Crime of Jean Genet Dominique Edde 9780857428721
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857428721Author Dominique EddeFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint -
Criminal Child: Selected Essays by Jean Genet
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373614Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Jean Genet: Flowers and Revolution by Barbara Read 9781898253075
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898253075Author Barbara ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 209Imprint < -
L'Homme blesse by Robert Payne
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92Drawn into the circuit of men cruising for sex in and around a train station, restless adolescent Henri begins a frenzied pursuit of a dangerously charismatic older man, with sometimes violent and... -
Riverwork by Lisa Robertson 9781552455173
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.41A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris.Some ruins are invisible.Under... -
Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko 9781771966887
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $16.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771966887Author Ivana SajkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.12John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse... -
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Joachim... -
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11______________ 'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund... -
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday by Frank Wynne 9781035920334
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday, selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.Since the dawn of literature, queer people have turned to writing to document their existence: to share... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.84'The best poet in America' Jean Genet 'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen The definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and... -
Fragments of the European City by Stephen Barber 9780948462665
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.35This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities - Berlin.Taking as its subject the... -
From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel by Professor Tom Bishop 9780814712603 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52From the Left Bank chronicles the intimate, behind-the-scenes encounters of an American Francophile and the stars of the French Avant Garde theater and literary worlds. It reflects the author's... -
On Cats Charles Bukowski 9781782117278
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go'For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient... -
Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute 9780811222761
Booksplease Price: $10.18Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work... -
On Love Charles Bukowski 9781782117308
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces... -
Pimp: The Story Of My Life by Iceberg Slim
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this... -
On Writing Charles Bukowski 9781782117247
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing.Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and... -
![The "Junior Dean" Rb Mcdowell: Encounters with a Legend by Anne Leonard 9781843510383](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/7592460/8535595/9781843510383__39590.1743061159.jpg?c=1 "The "Junior Dean" Rb Mcdowell: Encounters with a Legend by Anne Leonard 9781843510383")
The "Junior Dean" Rb Mcdowell: Encounters with a Legend by Anne Leonard 9781843510383
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.64Dr RB McDowell is a legend. To graduates of Trinity College, Dublin, he is a symbol of their years at university, the enduring source of endless amusing anecdotes and memories. Now, for the first... -
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804730716 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in... -
Man-Eating Typewriter by Richard Milward 9781399602013
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $31.95'A major talent' Irvine Welsh'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt'We're all in the gutter but some of us are ogling the sparkles... -
Night as It Falls by Jakuta Alikavazovic
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45'Jakuta Alikavazovic writes with lyric precision while making the limits of language felt. We need all of her books in English.' Ben Lerner**Longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation... -
The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993 by Charles Bukowski
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66THE BEST OF THE BEST OF BUKOWSKIThe Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best poetry from America's most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski. Celebrating the full range of the poet's... -
Extreme Europe by Stephen Barber 9781861890917
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $16.46Extreme Europe explores the urban extremes of Europe in their cultural, physical, geographical and mythical dimensions, considering the history and visual culture of Europe in the decade after the... -
Ghost Image by Herve Guibert
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $19.46Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on... -
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Hotel de Dream by Edmund White 9780747592792 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $3.31______________ 'Eccentric, disgracefully funny and shockingly beautiful by turns; determined both to describe the world as it really is and to invent it anew' - Guardian 'Powerful ... full... -
In Tangier by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590610
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58For much of the twentieth century, Tangier stood at a crossroads of cultures, creativity and chaos. Its labyrinthine streets and vivid contradictions attracted adventurers and artists, forming the... -
The Wound by David Ball 9780803239876
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98"Where is your wound?" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies... -
Letter to the Americans Jean Cocteau 9780811231596
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit,... -
Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History by Kadji Amin
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only...