Miracle of the Rose

New York: Grove, (1965).

Price: $35.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Fine with stamp on front pastedown fine in dustwrapper. Novel set in a French prison during the war. Translated by Bernard Frechtman.

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Item #58400 Miracle of the Rose. Jean GENET.

Jean Genet
birth name: Jean Genet
born: 12/19/1910
died: 4/15/1986
nationality: France

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French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic and anarchic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theater. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore