In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House

In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House

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 (1915â‚¬â€œ1948). 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 Welchâ‚¬s work, what is most important are the details of his charactersâ‚¬ surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William S. Burroughs wrote, â‚¬Å“makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes.â‚¬Â Film director John Waters includes this novel as one of his â‚¬Å“Five Books You Should Read to Live a Happy Life If Something Is Basically the Matter with You,â‚¬Â and writes: â‚¬Å“Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welchâ‚¬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.â‚¬Â Also included in this edition is the first U.S. publication of â‚¬Å“I Left My Grandfatherâ‚¬s House.â‚¬Â This first-person account of an 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.
Country USA
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ReleaseDate 2013-03-31
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EANs 9781878972132

Country	USA
Brand	Exact Change
Manufacturer	Exact Change
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations
ReleaseDate	2013-03-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781878972132

In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House

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