At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament

Author: Derek Jarman

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  • : 24.99 AUD
  • : 9780099222910
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Vintage Classics
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  • : 01 December 1992
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Derek Jarman
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Description

Derek Jarman is known as a painter, theatre designer and maker of films such as "Jubilee", "Caravaggio", "The Garden" and "Edward II". This book consists of a series of autobiographical fragments, interviews and newspapers extracts in which he celebrates homosexuality, articulating the pain, anxiety and rage which many homosexuals have felt under the physical, legal and cultural attacks of recent years. Jarman also wrote "Modern Nature".

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Impassioned, witty and polemical, At Your Own Risk is Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.