A Voice through a Cloud is English novelist Denton Welch's moving account of his recovery from a bicycling accident that left him partially paralyzed at the age of 20. Espouser of picnics and bicycle rides, cataloger of exquisite textures, pitiless surgeon of affect and mores, and also a pretty good painter, Denton Welch has drawn fans as far removed from his world of English pastoralism as William Burroughs and Richard Hell. Characterized by Welch's mercilessly acute powers of observation, A Voice Through a Cloud is a tour-de-force of both rigorous, detached self-analysis and clear-eyed external description, as Welch lies in a hospital bed, struggling with his illness and his relationships with family and doctor. Completed as Welch was dying 13 years later from complications resulting from the accident, and first published in 1950, A Voice through a Cloud's pristine prose sparkles with gleaming surfaces, human motivations clearly perceived and a steadiness of tone and register. While In Youth Is Pleasure is probably Welch's best-loved book, and Maiden Voyage his most scandalous, A Voice through a Cloud is his masterpiece, containing his most accomplished writing.

A Voice Through a Cloud (King Penguin)

Literature & Fiction

DENTON WELCH

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Maiden Voyage (Penguin Travel Library)

Travel

The Denton Welch Journals

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Vintage edition of 1946. A book of this grade is generally well kept and is in good shape to read and store. Sturdy spine, all pages intact physically. Solid cover. Might have acceptable shelve wear. Clean copy. Missing dust jacket.

Maiden voyage

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hamish Hamilton

The Journals of Denton Welch

E.P. Dutton, Inc.

The Stories of Denton Welch

Dutton Adult

<p>Determined not to return to school, a sixteen-year-old British boy takes a train in the opposite direction to Salisbury, but only delays the inevitable</p>

Maiden Voyage

E.P.Dutton

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 absconded, forcing his father to bring him back to Shanghai where further travels and adventures ensued. Maiden Voyage (1943) is Welch's semi-novelistic, beautifully observed account of these formative experiences. 'Denton Welch's subject matter had a richness and a colour that links him with very unlike writers, such as Dylan Thomas, Edith Sitwell and Christopher Fry, all of whom were standing out against the drabness of their times.' Alan Bennett 'Such a marvelous writer.' William S Burroughs

FABER

I Left My Grandfather's House

Alison & Busby

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