Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant
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Crisp, Quentin. The Naked Civil Servant. First American Edition. 1977. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Preface by Michael Holroyd.
This breakthrough book was originally released in Britain in 1968. It was not published in the United States, however, until this edition a decade later. Wry, dry, and devoid of sentimentality, it is either already a classic or well on its way to being one. Crisp was unapologetically homosexual in an era when only a handful of dandies like Truman Capote and Steven Tennant felt comfortable in doing so. And, unlike them, Crisp shunned material wealth or conventional society. That gave him considerably greater freedom of movement, which he describes hilariously in this memoir.
“Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”
--Quentin Crisp
This breakthrough book was originally released in Britain in 1968. It was not published in the United States, however, until this edition a decade later. Wry, dry, and devoid of sentimentality, it is either already a classic or well on its way to being one. Crisp was unapologetically homosexual in an era when only a handful of dandies like Truman Capote and Steven Tennant felt comfortable in doing so. And, unlike them, Crisp shunned material wealth or conventional society. That gave him considerably greater freedom of movement, which he describes hilariously in this memoir.
“Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.”
--Quentin Crisp
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