Tim came to know Quentin Crisp during the last
year of his life whilst researching his stage play
about him, Resident Alien. Crisp died before he
got a chance to see the play. Here he tells the
story of that year; looking at the life and lasting
legacy of one of the wittiest and most
controversial figures of the last century, and
shedding light on the intriguing events leading
up to his death. It is a compelling portrait of
what Tim calls a 'great, glittering
contradiction': a man who flaunted his
sexuality at a time when the penalty for
homosexual activity was jail, a man whose
very name epitomized style, yet who lived
alone in abject poverty in a room he simply
refused to clean, and a man who confidently
declared at the height of the AIDS epidemic
that he didn't believe it existed.
“Ask yourself, if there were no praise and no blame, who would I be then? Then you know who you are and what your style is”
- Quentin Crisp
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