First trade paperback printing in this Grove Press edition

 

Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine slight creasing, light previous price sticker residue on front cover. Softcover.

 

Publishing Info: Grove/Evergreen, New York, 1988

ISBN: 9780802130877

 

Genet's sensual and brutal portrait of World War II unfolds between the poles of his grief for his lover Jean, killed in the Resistance during the liberation of Paris, and his perverse attraction to the collaborator Riton. Elegaic, macabre, chimerical, Funeral Rites is a dark meditation on the mirror images of love and hate, sex and death.

 

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Genet's entry on Wikipedia

 

Genet interview on Youtube

 

NY Times review of Genet's Funeral Rites