In Youth is Pleasure
$19.54
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2021
Summary
A gay classic coming-of-age novel and an unforgettable slice of British interwar upper-middle class life
Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen-year-old, he hates school and longs to be alone. Spending his Summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers who don’t understand him, he explores ancient churches, spies on a man rowing in the river and collects antiques, escaping into his own singular aesthetic world.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241464137 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241464137 |
| Author: | Denton Welch |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 154g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 200mm |
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Critics Review
The writer who most directly influenced my work … he makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes
Britain’s Marcel Proust * The Times *
Underpinning it is an exquisite balance of pain and beauty - an aspect of the sublime - as Welch brings to vivid life the existence lost to him for ever … he is surprising us still – John Self * Guardian *
The writer who most directly influenced my work … he makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes – William Burroughs
A heightened, sensual journey … it is Orvil’s vibrant energy that allows this book to bubble … beautifully odd … spectacular – The Independent
Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me – Alan Bennett
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch’s In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger – John Waters
Denton Welch
Denton Welch was born in 1915 in Shanghai, the youngest of three brothers. After attending boarding school in England, he enrolled at Goldsmiths’ School of Art in April 1933 to study painting. In June 1935, while still a student, he was involved in a cycling accident that left him bedridden for the rest of his life, and he turned to writing instead of painting. He died in December 1948, at the age of 33.
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