Genet

5 best books like Genet (Edmund White): Concrete Island, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, Rimbaud: A Biography, Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man

Concrete Island

Author

J.G. Ballard

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as...

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940

Author	George Chauncey
ISBN	0465026214

The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century

Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...

Rimbaud: A Biography

Author

Graham Robb

Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his known crimes is longer than the list of his...

Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)

Author	Stacy Schiff
ISBN	0330346733

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the...

My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man

Author	Georges Bataille
ISBN	0714530042

My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.—Publishers Weekly

My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh....