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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
'After I had run away from school, no one knew what to do with me...' Born in Shanghai in 1915, son of a wealthy rubber merchant, Denton Welch was dispatched to an English boarding school after his mother's death. There he suffered, and soon a
A beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel. Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is fifteen, and the novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school. As in all of Welch's work, what is most important are the de
Når man spørger mig, hvilken forfatter der har haft den mest direkte indflydelse på mit eget arbejde, kan jeg svare uden tøven: Denton Welch. - William S. Burroughs Måske findes der ikke en bedre roman her i verden end Denton Welchs Ungdoms sødme . Bare d
Det er få romaner, der indkapsler teenageårenes ængstelige, tvære og selvoptagne limbo, at være fanget mellem en usikker, ængstelig barndom og en lige så usikker ungdom, så godt som Jomfrurejse, Denton Welchs delvist selvbiografiske coming of age-debutrom