Resident Alien: The New York Diaries

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UK Kirkus review

At the age when most of us are either putting our feet up or pushing up daisies, Quentin Crisp emigrated to New York. And until his recent death he remained there, living at ease among the denizens of the Lower East Side. In England, he said, the system is benign but the people are uncaring; the system in the US is ruthless but people are friendly to a fault. These diaries are a record of the early ninties and they are a delight. Crisp has the gift to see things utterly afresh and is completely without fear. Each page contains an original insight, a marvellous character vignette or a hilarious observation. No room here to quote from this hugely quotable book; suffice to say there's a great fund of apercus for you to steal and pass off to your friends as your own. (Kirkus UK)