M. Jean Genet

Our 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,...