Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welchâ€™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 Welchâ€™s first and created a sensation on publication in 1943; its frank description of public schoolboy life forced publisher Herbert Read to initially seek advice from libel lawyers. Even Winston Churchillâ€™s private secretary gossiped in a letter that, â€œthe book was reeking with homosexuality? I think I must get it.â€ Today, Welchâ€™s expressions of sexuality may seem more demure than outrageous, but his portrayal of the passions and humiliations of adolescence is graphic. As in all of Welchâ€™s novels, it is the precisely realized details of the authorâ€™s physical and social surroundings that make the book such a remarkable journey.
Country USA
Manufacturer Exact Change
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2013-03-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781878972286

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