The Thief's Journal — Jean Genet

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Paperback editions:

  • Trade Paperback
  • Feb-1994
  • Grove Press
  • ISBN: 0802130143
  • ISBN13: 9780802130143

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  • Paperback
  • Dec-2004
  • Disruptive Publishing
  • ISBN: 1596541377
  • ISBN13: 9781596541375

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Mar-2009
  • Faber and Faber (UK)
  • ISBN: 0571250335
  • ISBN13: 9780571250332

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  • Trade Paperback
  • Aug-2018
  • Grove Press
  • ISBN: 0802128270
  • ISBN13: 9780802128270

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  • Paperback
  • Mar-2019
  • Faber and Faber (UK)
  • ISBN: 0571340830
  • ISBN13: 9780571340835

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eBook editions:

  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Feb-1994
  • Grove Press

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“The mist beautiful book that Genet has written.” -- Jean-Paul Sartre

The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically biographical novel, personifying his quest for spiritual glory through the pursuit of evil. Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's “Black Prince of Letters” here reconstructs his early adult years -- time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities
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