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The magnificently witty diaries of 'one of the great stately homos
of England', covering his recent years in New York City - a
transatlantic Alan Bennett. The diaries of Quentin Crisp, a
well-known homosexual, giving his views on politics, prejudice and
human nature.
After half a century of metropolitan infamy, Quentin Crisp
graduated to international fame when his widely acclaimed
autobiography The Naked Civil Servant made him a household name,
even in respectable households. In this second volume of
autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes the wider horizons of his
years as a celebrity at home and aborad, and explains his personal
philosophy of inaction, as well as his love affair with North
America. How to Become a Virgin is a witty, acute and perceptive as
its inimitable author.
In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy
childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London.
There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and
comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships. All of
which he faced with humour and intelligence.
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.
Crisp describes his life with uninhibited exuberance in this classic autobiography. He came out as a gay man in 1931, when the slightest sign of homosexuality shocked public sensibilities, and he did so with provocative flamboyance, determined to spread the message that homosexuality did not exclude him or anyone else from the human race.
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