Reviews

Prisoner of Love by Ahdaf Soueif, Jean Genet, Barbara Bray

samfer91's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

eyoff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

austindoherty's review against another edition

4.0

"When they fall, the petals of the eglantine reveal the fruit, tiny at first but very noticable, because it's the same red as the penis of a dog in love." Genet died as he lived, with dick on the brain.

jofuss's review

challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

savaging's review

4.0

"One thing a book tries to do is show, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and even grief, the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those he speaks of, is dead."

A wild and imperfect and beautiful book. When Genet was dying of cancer, he refused pain-killers so he could be lucid enough to write this memoir of his time with the Black Panthers and the Palestinian fedayeen.