How To Have A Life-Style
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A witty and irreverent guide to self-invention, How To Have A Life-Style presents Quentin Crisp's singular philosophy on the art of living as a fully realized individual. With characteristic dry humor and unflinching confidence, Crisp instructs readers on how to cultivate a personal identity so distinct and deliberate that it becomes, in his words, a style of life rather than merely a way of living. Drawing on his own extraordinary existence as an openly effeminate man in mid-twentieth-century England, he illustrates that true style is not a matter of fashion or affectation, but of absolute self-knowledge and the courage to embody it without apology. The tone is equal parts provocative and liberating, delivering sharp social observations wrapped in the elegant prose of a man who lived every word he wrote.
Author: Quentin Crisp
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Methuen
Genre: Lifestyle
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A witty and irreverent guide to self-invention, How To Have A Life-Style presents Quentin Crisp's singular philosophy on the art of living as a fully realized individual. With characteristic dry humor and unflinching confidence, Crisp instructs readers on how to cultivate a personal identity so distinct and deliberate that it becomes, in his words, a style of life rather than merely a way of living. Drawing on his own extraordinary existence as an openly effeminate man in mid-twentieth-century England, he illustrates that true style is not a matter of fashion or affectation, but of absolute self-knowledge and the courage to embody it without apology. The tone is equal parts provocative and liberating, delivering sharp social observations wrapped in the elegant prose of a man who lived every word he wrote.