The Dilly: A History of the Piccadilly Rent Boy Scene
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Dilly: A History of the Piccadilly Rent Boy Scene
By (Author) Jeremy Reed
Peter Owen Publishers
Peter Owen Publishers
1st January 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
942.132
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
The Dilly A History of Piccadilly Rent Boys is the first book to really explore thehistory of male prostitution at Piccadilly Circus.'The Dilly' has long been London's principal location for selling sex and this is apreviously undocumented slice of London underground history. Dating fromOscar Wilde's notorious use of the location for pick-ups through to FrancisBacon's equal attraction to rough trade and right up to recent history, it iswritten with Jeremy Reed's signature flair for acute visual imagery.
Author Bio
Jeremy Reed is the author of more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. He is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the National Poetry Prize, and the Poetry Society's European Translation Award.
