The Naked Civil Servant
by:
Quentin Crisp (author)
Witty, acutely perceptive and thoroughly honest autobiography of a man who, in 1931, "came out" as a homosexual.
Witty, acutely perceptive and thoroughly honest autobiography of a man who, in 1931, "came out" as a homosexual.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006540441 (0006540449)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Flamingo
Pages no: 222
Edition language: English
Read this in the seventies and thought it brilliant.
Quentin Crisp is a delightful, smart and engaging man and his book is an entertaining, funny as well as tragic, insight into what it was like to be flamboyantly gay in the early part of the twentieth century. It's a fabulous story of a very brave man who stuck by his ideals and refused to be anythin...
Quentin Crisp is a delightful, smart and engaging man and his book is an entertaining, funny as well as tragic, insight into what it was like to be flamboyantly gay in the early part of the twentieth century. It's a fabulous story of a very brave man who stuck by his ideals and refused to be anythin...