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Book Synopsis The Naked Civil Servant by : Quentin Crisp
Download or read book The Naked Civil Servant written by Quentin Crisp and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations by : Amy Appleby
Download or read book Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations written by Amy Appleby and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book dramatically documents the past century of change in gay life through quotations, arranged by subject, from sources as diverse as Aristotle and Woody Allen.
Download or read book Quentin Crisp written by Nigel Kelly and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) became a celebrity and gay icon at the age of 60 with the publication and televising of his 1968 memoir, The Naked Civil Servant. Unapologetically unconventional, he filled books and articles with his witticisms and opinions on popular culture, and packed theaters worldwide with his one-man show An Evening with Quentin Crisp. This biography chronicles Crisp's life, including his birth in pre-World War I England; his life as a gay youth on the streets of London; his early attempts at writing and job-seeking; his entry into the world of modeling; and his sudden success late in life. With this definitive chronicle, Quentin Crisp and his unique worldview are once again on display.
Download or read book Resident Alien written by Quentin Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.
Download or read book God's Boy written by Andrew Hahn and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Hahn's God's Boy grapples with the fallibility of the body and desire in the ex-Christian tradition. A commentary on the church's toxic masculinity, the speaker reconciles his worship between dad/dy and God, seeking a loving mirror for the queer body. These poems deftly negotiate the cartography of absence; they're at once a primer on both solitude and abundance. Hahn queers the church-indoctrinated masculine, stating, "boys are not born w a bud in one hand & a dick in the other / boys are born crying." He shows us there's a space for these boys and finding it feels like Heaven.
Book Synopsis How to Go to the Movies by : Quentin Crisp
Download or read book How to Go to the Movies written by Quentin Crisp and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since moving to New York City over a decade ago, Quentin Crisp has brought his love of the cinema and his notorious wit together in a series of essays on films and film stars. A veteran film-goer of seventy years who has kept a vigilant eye on changing Hollywood styles and the public tastes that follow, Mr. Crisp discusses both films and stars with his typical panache and dexterity and leads his readers with polite madness to a clear, straightforward moral, proving himself to be an unexpected champion of good sense. Along the way Mr. Crisp shares his personal encounters with the likes of Lillian Gish, John Hurt, David Hockney, Divine, Sting, and Geraldine Page. Prefaced by longer essays on the essence of stardom, the nature of Hollywood, and the deplorable state of that town today, Mr. Crisp's book is a delight to read.
Book Synopsis Quentin and Philip by : Andrew Barrow
Download or read book Quentin and Philip written by Andrew Barrow and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable double biography celebrates the interlocking lives of two of the greatest eccentrics of the 20th century: the brilliant and bizarre Quentin Crisp and the outlandish Philip O'Connor, whose careers first became entwined in Fitzrovia during the Second World War. This is first authoritative account of the personalities behind their artful facades, told by novelist Andrew Barrow, whose life was profoundly affected by both men. 'It is not often that one comes across a truly original book, but here is one' Independent 'O'Connor was a histronic Withnail to Crisp's Ziggy Stardust...In Barrow's deft and cleverly constructed text, the two dance in and out of each other's lives and his own imagination' Guardian 'Beautifully tuned writing - a work of love' Daily Telegraph 'An affectionate and scrupulous portrait of the kind of lives which will never be seen again' Daily Mail
Download or read book Love Made Easy written by Quentin Crisp and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1977 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Manners from Heaven by : Quentin Crisp
Download or read book Manners from Heaven written by Quentin Crisp and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp by : Quentin Crisp
Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp written by Quentin Crisp and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightfully caustic, the keenest of British wits delivers a book of short pieces filled with a striking sense of courageous individuality--a must-have for the irritated and the perfect introduction for the "unCrisped".
Download or read book Resident Alien written by Quentin Crisp and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful gem is based on Crisp's diary in "The New York Native". His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life.
Download or read book Graves written by QUENTIN S. CRISP and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Graves, Damien, a male nurse and self-styled 'thanatophile', is in love with death in its purer and more ideal form. However, as he casts around for some authentic way to defy the void of modernity, his thanatophilia is swiftly and insidiously corrupted. Scavenging what 'materials' he can, he works in isolation like a reverse Doctor Frankenstein, wishing to understand the secrets of death, not life, in order to break the narrative power of science over the modern mind. Set against the backdrop of anomie-drenched 21st-century London, Graves, Quentin S. Crisp's second major novel, is a work of Gothic horror that confronts the 'hard problem' of consciousness in a world where it is easier to believe in artificial intelligence than human intelligence.
Download or read book Morbid Tales written by Quentin S. Crisp and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in
Book Synopsis All God's Angels, Beware! by : Quentin S. Crisp
Download or read book All God's Angels, Beware! written by Quentin S. Crisp and published by Chomu Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these ten stories, Quentin S. Crisp takes us from the spectral purlieus of the ghost of a suicide, searching in vain for a mortal confidante ('Troubled Joe'), to the future melancholy of a world in the early stages of human immortality, where non-holographic reality is despised (Karakasa), and through a variety of intimately portrayed worlds, both familiar and fantastical, to a final cri de coeur in the form of the novelette 'Suicide Watch', in which, against the background of the doomed present age, one suicidal loser attempts to save another.
Book Synopsis Defeated Dogs (Paperback) by : Quentin S Crisp
Download or read book Defeated Dogs (Paperback) written by Quentin S Crisp and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fifth original fiction collection from one of the true eccentrics of modern British writing - stories that blend erudite skill and a startling emotional intensity, classical elegance and unexpected experimentation, sophisticated miserablism and innocent beauty. A fairy tale as dark as they come amid a shattering clash of two opposing and poisoned personalities. A Meyrink-tinged dream of atavism and Italy that awakens the dreamer to philosophy and fate. A quiet and perfectly observed journey through the far reaches of Japan. Myth-working fantasy haunted by the motley ghosts of Lord Dunsany and Matsuo Basho, and by the imps of postmodernism. A vision of the afterlife where heaven and hell are entwined in torturous symbiosis. The sinister Black Dog folklore re-imagined as a cosmology of thanatophobia. For all the diversity of styles in evidence, they are united by the author's distinctive voice - a window into a crepuscular human world torn between magic and reality, earth and infinity.
Book Synopsis In Search of Stonewall by : Richard Schneider (Jr.)
Download or read book In Search of Stonewall written by Richard Schneider (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1994. It was the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and, as luck would have it, the year in which a new magazine called The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review was publishing its first issue. The fact that The G&LR's first year coincided with Stonewall's 25th forever joined the magazine's history with the founding event of the modern LGBT movement. This book commemorates The G&LR's 25th birthday with a collection of relevant articles selected from its 136 issues.
Book Synopsis The Naked Civil Servant by : Quentin Crisp
Download or read book The Naked Civil Servant written by Quentin Crisp and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement—it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin Crisp made the courageous decision to "come out" as a homosexual. This exhibitionist with the henna-dyed hair was harrassed, ridiculed and beaten. Nevertheless, he claimed his right to be himself—whatever the consequences. The Naked Civil Servant is both a comic masterpiece and a unique testament to the resilience of the human spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
