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The vicious clerk, who 'played to the gallery' at Bow Street Magistrates' Court, had stumbled on the truth about this extraordinary individual, who had recreated himself as a kind of androgyne. He wore women's clothes on only one occasion, and was disappointed because nobody paid him any attention. Dennis Pratt ('as my name was before I dyed it'), the boy from a typical suburban background, transformed himself into the bohemian who was Quentin Crisp, a man who looked like a woman, but wasn't.
The Stately Homo presents a multifaceted portrait of this unique, and uniquely amusing, character, with contributions from friends, admirers and critics. The book has been designed to explore his life from a variety of angles, with the aim of surprising those readers who think they have him pigeon-holed. His various careers - as a performer, artist's model, writer of a memorable autobiography and authority on style and etiquette - are examined with wit, affection and disinterested criticism. The Stately Homo is a tribute to one of the twentieth century's true English eccentrics.
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