The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Classics)
by Quentin Crisp
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Author: Quentin CrispPreface: Michael Holroyd
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-01
ISBN: 0141180536
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: An Englishman in the Soho
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the book that made Quentin Crisp famous (and infamous) and that gave him the title of England's Stately Homo. Quentin was an out homosexual even before the word 'out' was coined, and this is an ironic, and most of the times sarcastic, auto-biography on being a notorious effeminate man in the pre-70 "victorian" London days. Quentin's self-derogatory humour is, of course, only a way of criticising everyone and everything around him and getting away with it. In a Wilde kind of way this is a very very funny book, full of quotable material.
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