"Love Made Easy" 1977 CRISP, Quentin
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CRISP, Quentin
Quentin Crisp, born Denis Charles Pratt, was an English writer, artist's model, actor and raconteur known for his memorable and insightful witticisms. He became a gay icon in the 1970s after publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant, brought to the attention of the general public his defiant exhibitionism and longstanding refusal to remain in the closet.
[154] pp.
Duckworth
1977
8 3/4" x 5 7/8"
Fine/ Fine
Love Made Easy is one of Crisp’s early works, and is a fantastical, semi-autobiographical novel based on his own experiences living in London, as well as a description of the characters he encountered there. It was an unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence which led him to the heart of the capital city. There, in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality, short lived jobs and precarious relationships, which he describes in the book with a dry humour. Set in the late 1940s around ‘Flamboyant Street’, it follows a host of “British dropouts, old and young, rich and poor, caught up in this unlikely tarantella” (wrapper blurb). The stories are based around his own bedsit in Denbigh Street, Pimlico, where he "held court with London's brightest and roughest characters." The novel had been written in the 1950s, but remained unpublished until 1977, when Crisp was at the peak of his fame.