Resident alien : the New York diaries / Quentin Crisp ; edited with an introduction by Donald Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crisp, Quentin.

Contributor:

Carroll, Donald.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--England--London--Biography.

Gay men.

Gay men--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

England--London.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 225 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

1st Alyson books pbk. ed.

Other Title:

New York diaries

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Alyson Books, 1998, ©1996.

Summary:

Quentin Crisp, long famous as "one of the great stately homos of England," exiled himself to America in 1982 after he discovered that in New York "happiness rains down from the sky." Resident Alien is the often bitingly, amusing account of his love affair with the Big Apple. His affecting words cover topics from politics to prejudice, from the human spirit to the individual obstacles he faces every day in his solitary life. The spirit of his adopted city is captured as.

Well in uniquely Crispian turns of phrase. But the real flavor of his writing lies not in the punchy one-liners but instead in his mixture of wicked humor and gentle wisdom, of raconteurial flair and analytical rigor, of almost superhuman tolerance for the follies and evils of the age.

Notes:

Originally published by HarperCollins Publishers, London: January 1996.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

1555834663

9781555834661

OCLC:

47829910