In Youth is Pleasure
- Published: 1 July 2021
- ISBN: 9780141993942
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
A heightened, sensual journey ... it is Orvil's vibrant energy that allows this book to bubble ... beautifully odd ... spectacular
The Independent
Britain's Marcel Proust
The Times
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
John Waters
The writer who most directly influenced my work ... he makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes
William Burroughs
Underpinning it is an exquisite balance of pain and beauty - an aspect of the sublime - as Welch brings to vivid life the existence lost to him for ever ... he is surprising us still
John Self, Guardian
Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me
Alan Bennett