The Journals of Denton Welch - Softcover

Denton Welch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0525482555 ISBN 13: 9780525482550

Publisher: E. P. Dutton, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Denton Welch

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In 1935, Welch, an English art student of 20, was hit by a caran accident that curtailed his career as a painter and precipitated his death 13 years later. In the interim, Welch redirected his talents to writing novels (three of which have recently been reprinted), a journal and these short stories. Though he credited the accident with having saved him from becoming "a precious young man in a gallery," preciousness and an antic imagination couple in his writing in an annoying way. Eccentric aristocrats, brooding laborers, precocious children and passive yet predatory young women are summoned up in brilliantif febrileimages, only to be allotted great dollops of adolescent loneliness, more reflective of the author's sensibility than their own. Whenever possible, their costumes are allowed to sliprevealing other aspects of Denton Welch himself: his sensitivity, snobbery, sexual ambiguity and, sadly, his avid appetite for a life that was slipping away. January 14
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: E. P. Dutton
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0525482555
• ISBN 13: 9780525482550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 378
• Editor: Michael De-La-Noy