Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being. A Biography by Nigel Kelly

Author:Nigel Kelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

Quentin outside 129 Beaufort Street, 1980 (photograph by Morgan Fisher).

interview a lady phones him and after hanging up Quentin gives us a fascinating insight into the type of, often bizarre, communications his new found fame brings him; how he had become a kind of on-call agony aunt whom people felt they could disturb any time of the night or day. The interview finishes with Quentin talking at length of his love of America and his wish to live there permanently. “In New York you can hear the heart of the world beating. Wonderful!” l!i Morgan’s album Miniatures: A Sequence of 51 Tiny Masterpieces was released in 1980.

Quentin’s plans to live in America were now progressing, and he told a friend, “I long for New York like a bridegroom longs for his bride.”4"1 That summer he returned to California again and from there went back to New York. In the autumn he returned to Los Angeles. Quentin was now spending more time in the U.S. than in Britain.

Quentin had now become reacquainted with his former literary agent Donald Carroll and the two collaborated on a book, Doing It with Style, which was published in 1981. The introduction states, "Ever since the day our distant ancestor looked up and noticed for the first time that some people were blessed with a certain indefinable quality that set them apart from others, that

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.