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The Naked Civil Servant (Penguin Audiobooks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Quentin Crisp
Creator: Carole Rosen
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Category: Book
Buy New: £73.19
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1119176
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Pages: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 20 x 20 x 20
ISBN: 0140861602
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7662092
EAN: 9780140861600
ASIN: 0140861602
Publication Date: September 28, 1995
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 A Charming Man September 27, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Most autobiographies are too long, too dull and too self-congratulatory. Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servent isn't. Crisp comes across as completely charming: a lovely, witty man, quick to laugh at himself, ready to listen to others.
He is full of eccentricities aside from the obvious - his decision to promote his homosexuality in a time when such an activity was unheard of, by his wearing makeup/dying his hair with henna - including never cleaning his flat ("after the first year the dust really doesn't get any worse") and never reading any books, ("books are for writing, not for reading" - actually a quote from another book of his).
He is endlessly quotable and very funny.
Yet for all the humour the tone of this book is sad. Crisp was endlessly abused, beaten-up and victimised because of his appearance.
The book is also a valuble historical document shedding light on the blacked-out seedy streets of wartime Soho.
And what exactly is a naked civil servent? You'll have to read it to find out, won't you?
 An Englishman in the Soho September 3, 2002
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
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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