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Morbid Tales

Quentin S. Crisp

4.31/5 (96 ratings)

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Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands.
300 copies.
(Out of print).

Contents:
'Foreword'
'The Mermaid'
'Far-Off Things'
'Cousin X'
'A Lake'
'The Two-Timer'
'The Tattooist'
'Ageless'
'Autumn Colours'.

In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in ‘Cousin X’; contemporary Japan in ‘A Lake’: is matched by the elegance of the writing. They are unified, perhaps, by a yearning for the achingly perfect, ecstatic moment. As Mark Samuels points out in his Foreword, Crisp’s fiction is ‘. . . too multi-layered, too individual, to be labelled. One can spot influences here and there, a dash of this and a sprinkling of that, but the end result is much greater than the sum of its parts.’

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2004

Publisher:: Tartarus Press

Edition:: 1st edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 187262183X

ISBN13:: 9781872621838

kindle Asin:: B006ZA8DA8

Morbid Tales

Quentin S. Crisp

4.31/5 (96 ratings)

Read Download

Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands.
300 copies.
(Out of print).

Contents:
'Foreword'
'The Mermaid'
'Far-Off Things'
'Cousin X'
'A Lake'
'The Two-Timer'
'The Tattooist'
'Ageless'
'Autumn Colours'.

In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in ‘Cousin X’; contemporary Japan in ‘A Lake’: is matched by the elegance of the writing. They are unified, perhaps, by a yearning for the achingly perfect, ecstatic moment. As Mark Samuels points out in his Foreword, Crisp’s fiction is ‘. . . too multi-layered, too individual, to be labelled. One can spot influences here and there, a dash of this and a sprinkling of that, but the end result is much greater than the sum of its parts.’

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: pages

Publication:: 2004

Publisher:: Tartarus Press

Edition:: 1st edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 187262183X

ISBN13:: 9781872621838

kindle Asin:: B006ZA8DA8

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