In a world where flamboyance and fleeting fame have become everyday, one figure is still surpassed in the profession of being- Quentin Crisp, the original celebrity and self- proclaimed ‘stately homo of Britain’.
In this funny, moving account of his outrageous youth, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence which led him to London.
‘A work of great wit, intelligence and sensitivity.’ Washington Post Book World
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About Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp was born on Christmas Day 1908 in Sutton, a suburb of London. After leaving school he became an illustrator and a designer of book covers before spending the next 35 years of his life as an artists' model. In 1981 he moved to New York City and became a resident alien, living in a one bedroom flat in Chelsea which he famously never cleaned ("After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse"), and describing himself as a "resident waif". He died in 1999, just one month short of his 91st birthday.
In this funny, moving account of his outrageous youth, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence which led him to London.
The Naked Civil Servant features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
The Naked Civil Servant is available in Paperback (b Format), Paperback
The Naked Civil Servant was written by Quentin Crisp and published by Collins Flamingo an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Naked Civil Servant has 217 pages
£9.89
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