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Prestige, grave and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Jean Genet
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Anthony Blond, Gallimard, Faber and Faber
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9780394623689
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First sentence
“THE NOTION OF MURDER OFTEN BRINGS TO MIND THE NOTION OF sea and sailors.”
About Jean Genet · 1910–1986
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
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