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In Youth Is Pleasure

✍ Scribed by Welch, Denton

Book ID
109325512
Publisher
Plume
Year
1944
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

In Youth is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming of age novel. Welch, who began to write after an accident left him partially paralyzed, is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation. "Denton Welch makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes.... It is time Denton received the attention he deserves". -- William Burroughs.

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