First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure recounts a summer in the life of 15-year-old Orvil Pym, who is holidaying with his father and brothers in a Kentish hotel, with little to do but explore the countryside and surrounding area. ‘I don’t understand what to do, how to live’: so says the 15-year-old Orvil – who, as a boy who glories and suffers in the agonies of adolescence, dissecting the teenage years with an acuity, stands as a clear (marvelously British) ancestor of The Catcher In The Rye’s Holden Caulfield. A delicate coming-of-age novel, shot through with humour, In Youth Is Pleasure, has long achieved cult status, and earned admirers ranging from Alan Bennett to William Burroughs, Edith Sitwell to John Waters. ‘Maybe there is no better novel in the world that is Denton Welch’s In Youth Is Pleasure, ‘ wrote Waters. ‘Just holding it my hands… is enough to make illiteracy a worse crime than hunger.’
Denton Welch
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 172 ● ISBN 9781910296301 ● Dimensione 0.9 MB ● Casa editrice Galley Beggar Press ● Città London ● Paese GB ● Pubblicato 2014 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 3405900 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale