Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations: 1000 Observations on Life and Love By, For, and About Gay Men and Women

Quentin Crisp

ISBN 10: 0025288016 / ISBN 13: 9780025288010

Published by Macmillan Pub Co, 1989

About this Item

MacMillan, New York, 1989. Hardcover. 1st edition, 1st printing (full number line). 303 pp. Yellow boards, black cloth spine with gold titles. Cover art by Alan Cober. Humorous quotes and aphorisms collected for gay men and women by the inimitable Quentin Crisp (1908-1999). Near fine. In a protective mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # ABE-15550319130

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations: 1000 Observations on Life and Love By, For, and About Gay Men and Women
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0025288016
• ISBN 13: 9780025288010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humor
  • Gay & Lesbian

About this title

Synopsis

This is not a joke book, nor is it an anthology of aphorisms – of ugly truths prettily phrased. This may surprise some potential readers who think of epigrams and poetry as the everyday speech of a certain category of gay men. In these pages can be heard both elegant and crude exclamations of disbelief or contempt or sheer panic from the unenlightened. Some of these express a genuine moral indignation; others are only the voice of a society determined to preserve itself at all costs from a force that it considers subversive but that in reality is, at its worst, iconoclastic and, at its least harmful, merely sterile and frivolous. From within the stockade come occasional cries of mourning, darkening growls of rage, and elsewhere, considered opinions from the gay community about its human environment and about itself. [From the Introduction]