{"id":28951,"date":"2020-02-07T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=28951"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:39:49","slug":"the-maids-by-jean-genet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/the-maids-by-jean-genet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maids by Jean Genet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Maids<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>and Deathwatch<\/em><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jean Genet<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A play, accomapnied by Deathwatch, another play. <\/p>\n<p>Genet drew the plot of &#8220;The Maids&#8221; from a 1933 tabloid murder but transformed the true crime into a drama filled with unreliable narrators and sinister charades. Two domestic workers, deeply resentful of their inferior social position, try to avenge themselves against society by destroying their employer. When their attempt to betray their mistress&#8217;s lover to the police fails and they are in danger of being found out, they dream of murdering Madame, little aware of the true power behind their darkest fantasy.<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h2>Check for it on:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/search?tag=lesbianfun-20&amp;index=books&amp;field-title=Jean Genet, The Maids\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/search?q=The Maids, Jean Genet&#038;qid=\">Goodreads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?tbm=bks&#038;hl=en&#038;q=Jean Genet, The Maids\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n .TFtable{\n  border-collapse:collapse; <\/p>\n<p> }\n .TFtable td{ \n  spacing:10px; border:#ffffff 5px solid; padding-right:20px<\/p>\n<p> }\n \/*  Define the text for all the 2nd columns  *\/\n .TFtable td:nth-child(2){\n  color: #0099ff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<table class=\"TFtable\">\n<tr>\n<td>Genre<\/td>\n<td>Fiction; Mystery; Play<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Copyright Date<\/td>\n<td>1947<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Publication Date<\/td>\n<td>1954<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Publisher<\/td>\n<td>Grove Press<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Format<\/td>\n<td>Hardcover<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Notes<\/td>\n<td>Look for multiple copies, publishers and covers including in the original French as Les Bonnes. Also look for the movie, or play production (including play bills).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Language<\/td>\n<td>English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rating<\/td>\n<td>NotRated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Original Title<\/td>\n<td>Les Bonnes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Original Country<\/td>\n<td>France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Original Language<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Foreword Author<\/td>\n<td>Jean-Paul Sartre<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Subject<\/td>\n<td>Lesbian murderers &#8212; Fiction; Murder &#8211; Fiction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BookID<\/td>\n<td>7980<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Genet | The Maids | A play, accomapnied by Deathwatch, another play. <\/p>\n<p>Genet drew the plot of &#8220;The Maids&#8221; from a 1933 tabloid murder but transformed the true crim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318,4324,4405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","category-play"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Maids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jean Genet | The Maids | A play, accomapnied by Deathwatch, another play. 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