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Title: In Youth Is Pleasure by Denton Welch ISBN: 0-19-281363-3 Publisher: Oxford Univ Press Format: Unknown Binding |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A charming diversion.
Comment: I quite enjoyed this little book. I have only just made the Denton Welch discovery and am very happy I did. This book details the misadventures of an obviously gay teen on holiday with his father and brothers. Fine prose and keen insights are the author's gifts. Autobiographical in nature, this novella never negelects to entertain or amuse. Welch's was an original voice and one well worth listening to.
Rating: 3
Summary: Like wading through a shallow pool of murky water
Comment: I just could not get into this novel. It seemed to me to be very shallow and did not delve into the characters beyond a physical context. The main character remained below a murky surface as I found myself waiting for his true nature to emerge. It washowever an easy read and perhaps a nice piece to read if you want something simple and unengaging.
Rating: 4
Summary: Edmund White Recommends Welch
Comment: This book is an account of a walking tour of England by a young man. Mostly, it's full of wry and critical descriptions of the people he encounters. There are odd aunts, strange villagers, haunting fellow hostel guests.
Welch himself was a visual artist by training. He was a promising, public school educated young man when he had a crippling bicycle accident.
His writing consistently describes athletic situations: swimming, skiing, bicycling. Because he wrote so little, though, I'm not certain how important this was to him.
As I read, I felt I was in the company of Paul Theroux. Then I'd feel it was Graham Greene or DH Lawrence. He's such a craftsman of the written word. His skills equal those of the other writers I'm mentioning here. However, it's a shame to compare him to these writers. He simply didn't leave enough writing behind him. Welch feels very accessible. Though his writing has become obscure to us, there is no feeling that he is writing in an obscure way.
You have an oppurtunity to be the first one on your block to get to know Welch. The fun part is that nobody has to know just how easy Welch is to read.
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Title: A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch, Edith Sitwell ISBN: 1878972154 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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