Curzon in Love [Paperback]

Daniel Curzon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 1988

Three lovers in three styles: raw realism, Coward/Maugham drawing room comedy, and Arabian Nights fantasy.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this confessional and repetitive novel, Curzon ( The World Can Break Your Heart ) tells the story of "Daniel Curzon, a writer who decided in his fortieth year to write about the three men he had called 'lover,' wanting to write honestly about the emotions he had felt." We first meet Curzon in 1975 at the height of the Gay Liberation Movement in San Francisco, where he describes with "grubby realism" his relationship with an "emotionally sadistic" sexual partner called Jer. We next encounter Curzon at a French lover's chateau built during Edwardian times, where he entertains readers using a comedy-of-manners style. Finally, we find him on a primitive island, where, borrowing the language of the Arabian nights, he recounts his having fallen in love with "Ja," the "flower of an ancient race." The author's sincere efforts to experiment with language often result in an affected style that is marred further by obvious plays on words. While his observations about the problems faced by writers and gays are engaging and funny, Curzon often indulges in simplistic "we" versus "they" dichotomies, and his attempts at profundity can sound flat, even pathetic.
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"This is a wonderful book and wonderful on so many levels." -- --Quentin Crisp

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Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Knights Press (October 10, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915175274
• ISBN-13: 978-0915175277
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,789,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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BIOGRAPHY for DANIEL CURZON

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CAREER BLURBS:
"Daniel Curzon is central and essential to the history of our community's culture." -- Doric Wilson, playwright

"Daniel Curzon is indeed an important, influential, enlightening, and entertaining author." -- Robert Patrick, author of Kennedy's Children,
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In fiction, Daniel Curzon has published in The Kenyon Review, Descant, Christopher Street, The Oregon Review, Pannus Index, and many other magazines. His stories have been anthologized in Mae West Is Dead (Faber and Faber), Man of My Dreams (Chronicle Books), Aphrodisiac (Coward-McCann), and several other collections.
His newest manuscript is a novel in e-mails about Jane Austen coming back to life in modern times and facing the problems of today: SAVING JANE AUSTEN.
His books include Something You Do in the Dark (G.P. Putnam and Lancer Books), The World Can Break Your Heart (Knights Press), Curzon in Love (Knights Press), Only the Good Parts and Not Necessarily Nice: Stories. Among the Carnivores (Ashley), Human Warmth and Other Stories(Grey Fox Press.

Daniel Curzon has also written plays on a variety of subjects:
His My Unknown Son was produced in New York at the Circle Rep Lab (1987) and later in an Equity production at the Kaufman Theater off-Broadway (1988).
Two of his pieces were included in Homosexual Acts, produced off-Broadway at Theater Off Square, New York (1991). My Unknown Son was given its West Coast premier in Los Angeles in the summer of 1997.

He was awarded the prestigious 1999 National New Play Contest Award for Godot Arrives by the Southwest Theatre Association. Also produced in New Delhi, August, 2009.

Winner one-act contest for "The Hit" at the Attic Theater of Hollywood (1997) and for "Sour Grapes" at the Actors Theater of Santa Cruz (1997)
First Prize, 1998, the One-Act Marathon of the Attic Theatre, Hollywood..

Winner of Second Prize, out of four hundred entries, for one-act "A Fool's Audition," Great Platte River Playwrights Festival, U of Nebraska -- Kearney, summer, 2001. Produced 2001. This one-act also won Honorable Mention in the 2001 Kernodle New Play Competition (U of Arkansas).

He has written a Shakespearean sequel (Henry II; Part III, a Maugham/Coward-like down-for-the weekend comedy (When Bertha Was a Pretty Name), plus several musicals with composer Dan Turner (Cinderella II (about what happens to Cinderella and her prince after they live happily ever after) and No Mince Pies (about Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans with parallels to our own times).

Daniel Curzon (Daniel R. Brown) was born in Litchfield, Illinois and grew up in Detroit. He holds a M.A. in English from Kent State and a Ph.D. in English from Wayne State U. He has taught at several colleges and universities, including Wayne State, the University of Maryland (Far East Div.), California State -- Fresno, and City College of San Francisco.