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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. Flagrantly controversial on first publication in 1945, this is an unfo...

Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure." - John WatersFlagrantly controversial on its first publication in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire by Denton Welch (1915-48). Against the backdrop of an English country hotel in a languid pre-war summer, Denton Welch's alter ego, Orvil Pym, examines his early life and formative experiences wit...

Certainly the writer who most directly influenced my work." - William S. Burroughs A Voice Through A Cloud is Denton Welch's unfinished masterpiece.Welch, one of the most gifted creative artists of his generation, died in 1948 at the age of thirty-one, leaving this, perhaps his finest work, almost but not quite completed. Under the thin disguise of fiction Welch recreates the world of hospitals and nursing homes in which he spent so many month...

Maurice prepara un piccolo bagaglio, prende la bicicletta e pedala verso la campagna animato da una curiosità nevrastenica. Poi, il buio. Si risveglia su un prato, la sua vita è implosa. "Fissavo il cielo e non mi potevo muovere. Intorno a me tutto sembrava vacillare e sul punto di spezzarsi". Da quel momento vivrà nei letti d'ospedale, dovrà reimparare a camminare, ad accettare gli esseri umani, a rinunciare alla morte. "Non poter fare una co...

Denton Welch hat ein bewegtes Leben geführt, seine ganz eigene Sicht auf die Dinge korrespondiert mit seiner besonderen Persönlichkeit und zeigt sich in einer Fülle einzigartiger Sätze, die einen ebenso verwundern wie bezaubern. Im Mittelpunkt des Romans steht der neugierige Orvil, der den Sommer mit seinem wortkargen Vater, seinem hochmütig-cholerischen Bruder Charles und seinem gutherzigen Bruder Ben verbringt, der ihn ständig mit Schauerge...

Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death. There he suffered, and soon absconded, forcing his father to bring him back to Shanghai where further travels and adventures ensued.

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Part of the "Denton Welch" series, this novella recounts a walking tour undertaken by Welch in southern England, while he was a student. It describes his adventures along the way with a sense of nostalgia not only for the pre-war world, but also for the enjoyment of existence in the years before Welch was disabled by a life-threatening accident.

Introduced once as bright boy of British belles letters, there may be a dubious few to whom his emasculated exoticism, nasty naughtiness may appeal... Not us... This is a fictional sequel to his Maiden Voyage, with many of its elements in exaggerated form, as Denton Welch continues to cultivate the odd, the perverse, the physically distasteful, the emotionally insecure. Here is Orvil Pym, 15, anxious adolescent with a fastidious femininity, as...

Orvil Pym ha quindici anni e studia in collegio. Sua madre è morta, suo padre è tornato dall'Oriente e ora si appresta a passare l'estate con i tre figli in un vecchio albergo sul Tamigi. Adolescente solitario e incompreso, Orvil vive il vuoto lasciato da sua madre oscillando tra profonda malinconia, desiderio d'avventura e immaginazione sfrenata. Odia la spavalderia e l'arroganza del fratello maggiore Charles, nelle sue piccole fughe quotidia...

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