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Original Title:	In Youth Is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House
ISBN:	1878972138 (ISBN13: 9781878972132)
Edition Language:	English

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First published in 1945, "In Youth Is Pleasure" is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is 15 years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school--but as in all of Welch's work, what is most important are the details of his characters' surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William S. Burroughs wrote, "makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes." Film director John Waters includes this novel as one of his "Five Books You Should Read to Live a Happy Life If Something Is Basically the Matter with You," and writes: "Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's "In Youth Is Pleasure." Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger." Also included in this edition is the first U.S. publication of "I Left My Grandfather's House." This first-person account of an idyllic walking tour in the British countryside undertaken when Welch was 18 makes a fascinating companion piece to the fictionalized, though no less autobiographical, "In Youth Is Pleasure."

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Title	:	In Youth is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfather's House
Author	:	Denton Welch
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	March 31st 2013 by Exact Change (first published January 1st 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Literature. GLBT. Queer. European Literature. British Literature

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William Burroughs leads off with effusive praise ("When asked what writer has most directly influenced my own work I can answer without hesitation: Denton Welch.") in a Foreword, but I don't get it. Maybe I didn't have on board the drugs required for devotion. This is said to be a cult classic, but it's not my cult. I didn't find much, if any, pleasure in this youth.It's not a coming of age story--if anything, the main character regresses to a more childlike state suddenly (and inexplicably) at

Aside from Apthorpe in Waugh's WWII trilogy, Orvile is one of my favorite characters. While Apthorpe would be the perfect train companion, Orvile would come in after the train arrives--while huffing onto a couch in a stiff room, wondering what to do next.

I just finished In Youth is Pleasure, and am about to embark upon the next title in this book. Before finishing the book, I must confess my love for Orvil Pym, the main character. I love Orvil in such a way that I struggle to describe it even to myself, it has been so long since such character lust has overtaken me. I adored Zeno, yes, but this young Orvil speaks to the gay teenage boy in me (who apparently is not spoken to often enough. I must work on that). The book is about Orvil's (his dad

In Youth is Pleasure & I Left My Grandfathers House by Denton Welch is one of those books which you need to have time to reread the minute after you have finished reading it. It is one of those books that demands to be reread, I think. It rather compels you to reread it. Some books have that effect on people and those books are few and far in-between. This is one of them. I discovered this book through The Novel Cure Reading Challenge and I cannot thank Susan and Ella enough for including

I so badly wish I would have discovered this beautiful, hilarious, sad, tender, and very queer novel in my teen years. It would have saved me so much grief. Orvil Pym is my favorite character in fiction and I can't wait to read everything else that Denton Welch has written.

In which Nothing Happens, really, but it happens perfectly. In Youth Is Pleasure captures, so well, the thrill of the unexpected that can inhabit the most ordinary spans of time and place. As well as the tumult of teen years, where everything happens in flashes of overexposure, high and low, but ultimately everything is (likely) actually part of a modest normality, even when it's exceedingly strange. Here, it's all a very believable and unhysterical tumult of teen experience. I can see why John

I came across a mention of Denton Welch on the blog Band of Thebes. I'd never heard of him, and I'm really glad I read this. The novelette at the beginning is a great coming of age story, set at a resort hotel during a teenager's summer school holidays. It's one of those stories where seemingly insignificant events can be imbued with deep layers of meaning -- in the way teenagers do.I liked the "I Left My Grandfather's House" memoir that appeared at the end of the book. It was strange to think