I left my grandfather's house /
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Author / Creator: | Welch, Denton. |
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Imprint: | London : Enitharmon, 2006. |
Description: | 87 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8400310 |
Summary: | The third volume in Enitharmon's Denton Welch series is his autobiographical novella I Left My Grandfather's House, written in 1943, first published posthumously in 1958 and only briefly in print since. In the novella Welch recounts a walking tour undertaken in southern England ten years before, while he was a painting student at the Goldsmiths' School of Art. His many adventures along the way are described with a characteristic lyricism and energy, as well as with a sense of nostalgia not only for the pre-war world, but also for the innocent enjoyment of existence in the years before Welch was permanently disabled by a life-threatening accident. As Edmund White has written: 'Welch has the power to generate interest out of even the most meagre materials. He had this gift from the beginning but suffering and illness refined it into a white-hot flame.' |
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Item Description: | Originally published: London: Lion & Unicorn, 1958. |
Physical Description: | 87 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: | 1904634281 9781904634287 |