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Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Content: "In 1935, when he was twenty, Denton Welch was run over by a car as he cycled from his lodgings in Greenwich to visit his relatives in Surrey. His upbringing had been an unsettled on, and at the time of his accident his future looked bleak as he struggled to come to terms with his homosexuality and his apparent lack of talent as a painter. Yet by the time he died of his injuries, in 1948 he had been hailed by Edith Sitwell as 'that rare being, a born writer', and acclaimed by a host of others, among them Elizabeth Bowen, Cyril Connolly, James Agate and W H Auden. In the space of just seven years he had written three autobiographical novels about his youth and his accident - Maiden Voyage, In Youth is Pleasure and A Voice Through a Cloud, a lengthy journal of an acutely personal nature, and some of the most entertaining short stories in the English language. In addition, he made a name for himself as a painter and illustrator of startling originality." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: Wikipedia has a brief article on Michael De-la-Noy, beginning "Michael De-la-Noy (3 April 1934 - 12 August 2002, born Michael Walker) was a British journalist and author." More information is available from this obituary in The Guardian. Use the search box left to find more books about or by Denton Welch from Arbery Books. Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Maurice Denton Welch was born on 29 March 1915 in Shanghai, where both his grandfathers had settled to make their fortunes - his maternal grandfather, Thomas Bassett, in shipping, and his paternal grandfather, Joseph Welch, as a tea merchant - and where his father, Arthur Joseph Welch, was a partner in a firm of rubber estate managers called Wattie and Co. In this cosmopolitan city he spent the greater part of his childhood, interspersed with visits to England, before being sent to school there at the age of nine. In later life he was to recall his grandfathers' 'great houses of grey and red rubbed brick' that gave 'a notion of their wealth, their love of comfort and show', and his own childhood home, at 585 Avenue Foch, with its 'long, heavy arched verandas aflame with Virginia creeper'. Here, in the garden, he built make-believe houses with his brother Paul and hid in the branches of a camphor tree. The two boys had a swing shaped like a boat, that would 'fly up at one end and into the scented bushes and one was lost for a second in the pink froth, to be torn out again like a rushing wind'. At the bottom of the garden was a coach-house and stables, and even after the First World War a coachman was employed to drive an antique carriage that 'used to stand next to the cars, one open and one closed, looking like a broken-down aristocrat trying to keep pace with two smart parvenus'." opening paragraph (footnote omitted) Secondhand booksellers |
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