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Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver

Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver

Murtaugh, Daniel J.

Hardcover

Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies

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ISBN10: 0299310108
ISBN13: 9780299310103
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jul 29 2002
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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 also 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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