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Dress To Kill
Dress To Kill
Dec 23, 2024 10:37 PM

Author:Eddie Izzard,David Quantick

Dress To Kill

Eddie Izzard - action transvestite, boy racer and male tomboy - spent the 1990s conquering Britain. As the decade ended, he looked further afield. "Dressed To Kill", his stand-up tour, saw him transport his high heels and off-the-shoulder numbers to New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, taking a natural comedian's delight in the differences separating the two sides of the Pond. In this book, he reflects on his birth in Yemen and his childhood in Northern Ireland, Wales and London, and muses on animals, male tomboys, street theatre, sex, crime, God, "The Great Escape", Bible stories starring Sean Connery and James Mason, and cats who dig for oil. He also reflects on the trials and tribulations of being an cross-dressing, surrealist comedian intent on making it in America.

Reviews

Readers may be surprised by Simmons's clarity and candour. How did Chaim Witz, the overprotected Israel-born son of Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivors, become Gene Simmons, fire-breathing, tongue-flexing, blood-spitting rocker?

—— New York Times

Don't miss this compelling and witty tale of the actor's 11 year fight with Parkinson's disease. An intelligent, poignant and funny read

—— Woman's Own

A poignant story, well worth reading

—— OK

Well-written and insightful ... a rare, unmissable memoir

—— Heat

Real power … compelling reading … his book often has the intensity of a thriller

—— Craig Brown , Mail on Sunday

Sharp, touching and genuinely inspiring

—— Sunday Times

An honest, engrossing and uplifting read

—— Good Book Guide

Funny, touching, inspiring and told in such a way that it becomes impossible to resist

—— Glasgow Evening Times
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