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In Youth Is Pleasure
[Paperback - 2021]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Penguin Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780241464137 | Pages: 192
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Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me Alan Bennett

Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty Guardian

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. First published in 1945, this is an unforgettable portrayal of a young man s sensuous coming-of-age.

A heightened, sensual journey ... it is Orvil s vibrant energy that allows this book to bubble ... beautifully odd ... spectacular Independent

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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