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In Youth is Pleasure Book

First published in 1945, In Youth is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school--but as in all of Welch's work, what is most important are the details of his characters' surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William Burroughs writes, ìmakes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes.î Also included in this edition is the first U.S. publication of ìI Left my Grandfather's House.î This first-person account of a idyllic walking tour in the British countryside undertaken when Welch was 18 makes a fascinating companion piece to the fictionalized, though no less autobiographical, In Youth is Pleasure.Read More

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  • 1878972138
  • 9781878972132
  • Denton Welch
  • 6 March 1999
  • Exact Change,U.S.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 254
  • Reprint
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