# Our Lady of the Flowers

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- Book: [Our Lady of the Flowers](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet/our-lady-of-the-flowers) ([Our Lady of the Flowers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet/our-lady-of-the-flowers.md))
- Authors: [Jean Genet](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-genet)
- Publisher: Faber AND Faber
- ISBN: 978-05-7134-082-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2019-03-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

''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 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, Our Lady of the Flowers is a powerful and original debut novel, which put Genet into the front rank of French writers.