In Youth Is Pleasure
"Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch''s In Youth Is Pleasure." - John Waters
Flagrantly 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, exa...
"Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch''s In Youth Is Pleasure." - John Waters
Flagrantly 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, exa...
