The Naked Civil Servant: [an autobiography]
Quentin CRISP
Sold by James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
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Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 25 October 2011
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCovers slightly faded at bottom edge, dustwrapper darkened at spine and edges, rather worn and torn but complete. Inscribed by the author to the writer Jean Ross, "Mrs Hewson with love Quentin Crisp". From 1940 to 1980 Quentin Crisp (né Dennis Charles Pratt, 1908-1999) lived at 129 Beaufort Street, Chelsea, in a notably squalid bedsit that was the model for the setting of Harold Pinter's first play, The Room (1957). Crisp's downstairs neighbour was the actor Gordon Richardson, younger brother of Irene Dale Hewson (alias Jean Ross, née Richardson, 1907-1985; married 1938 George Robert Dale Hewson), actress turned prolific novelist - dubbed by Crisp a "migrating crane", as she based herself in Scotland but wintered in London. "From the dawn of my history I was so disfigured by the characteristics of a certain kind of homosexual person that, when I grew up, I realized that I could not ignore my predicament. The way in which I chose to deal with it would now be called existentialist. Perhaps Jean-Paul Sartre would be kind enough to say that I exercised the last vestiges of my free will by swimming with the tide but faster. In the time of which I am writing I was merely thought of as brazening it out. I became not merely a self-confessed homosexual but a self-evident one . . .".
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