Miracle of the Rose

"A special feature of Miracle of the Rose is that it deals with childhood and ealry adolescence in the reformatory, as well as with adult life in prison or on the streets. This almost puts it into the category of 'confessions of an old boy'; It reminds one a little of accounts of English boarding schools in their worst phases, when the masters were as remote as warders...Genet's writing expresses stong emotion only in the direction of sublimity. He is so steeped in pornography and dirt that he deals with it quite unself-consciously."Genet, Jean is the author of 'Miracle of the Rose', published 1994 under ISBN 9780802130884 and ISBN 0802130887.