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Denton Welch (1915-48) died at the age of thirty-three after a
brief but brilliant career as a writer and painter. The revealing,
poignant, impressionistic voice that buoys his novels was much
praised by critics and literati in England and has since inspired
creative artists from William S. Burroughs to John Waters. His
achievements were all the more remarkable because he suffered from
debilitating spinal and pelvic injuries incurred in a bicycle
accident at age eighteen. Though German bombs were ravaging
Britain, Welch wrote in his published work about the idyllic
landscapes and local people he observed in Kent. There, in 1943, he
met and fell in love with Eric Oliver, a handsome, intelligent, but
rather insecure "landboy"-an agricultural worker with the wartime
Land Army. Oliver would become a companion, comrade, lover, and
caretaker during the last six years of Welch's life. All fifty-one
letters that Welch wrote to Oliver are collected and annotated here
for the first time. They offer a historical record of life amidst
the hardship, deprivation, and fear of World War II and are a
timeless testament of one young man's tender and intimate emotions,
his immense courage in adversity, and his continual struggle for
love and creative existence.
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