Maiden voyage
by Denton Welch
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"Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welch's sixteenth year when he ran away from his English public school, and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. The book was Welch's literary debut and created a sensation on publication in 1943: its frank description of public schoolboy life forced publisher Herbert Read to seek advice from libel lawyers. Even Winston Churchill's private secretary gossiped in a letter that, "the book was reeking with homosexuality ...
I think I must get it." Today, Welch's expressions of sexuality may seem more demure than outrageous, but his graphic portrayal of the passions and humiliations of adolescence have made him a beloved writer for a growing cult of devotees."--BOOK JACKET.
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Denton Welch's first novel Maiden Voyage (1946) recounts Welch's adventures as a boy when, after running away from his English public school, he was sent to Shanghai to live with his father for a year. Welch's keen observations - of his tortured relationship with his distant father, and the colonial milieu of pre-war China - dominate this painfully honest narrative. Exact Change's publication of Maiden Voyage marks the bringing back into print of all three of Denton Welch's novels, a cause for celebration among the growing number of fans who have embraced his beautiful and courageous writing.
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