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by Denton Welch (Author)
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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: Exact Change,U.S. (6 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1878972154
  • ISBN-13: 978-1878972156
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 15.4 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 579,571 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Memoir of an appalling bicycle accident, 16 Feb 1998
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Denton Welch was crippled in a bicycle accident when he was 19. This book recounts his experience of the accident and his long, slow struggle to recover. Although presented as fiction,all of Welch's work is closely autobiographical (although the names are changed). The opening of the book, which depicts the horror of serious injury, is unforgettable. The catheters, the sequence of operations, the excruciating pain and the loneliness of his convalesence, everything is described with almost uncanny accuracy. The later sections of the book, which are concerned with his slow- and partial- recovery are perhaps less succesful, and the reader's mind wanders. Here, he describes his relationships with his fellow patients, doctors and the nursing staff, and well as his occassional visitors (his mother was dead, and his father in China). A Voice Through A Cloud is undoubtedly Welch's darkest book- he wrote it as his condition once again was deterioating- and in the eyes of some, it is his masterpiece. Personally, I enjoyed his Journals more, and perhaps also Maiden Voyage, his first book. However, he is an under-rated writer, and I hope it will not be long before all his books are once again in print- this is the least he deserves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The magic that is right under his eyes, 8 Jan 2009
By I. Brzozowski "the subliminal kid" (London) - See all my reviews
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Beginning with an ill-fated bicycle ride from his student digs in Greenwich to Surrey, this autobiographical novel tells the detailed account of Welch's slow convalescence after a motorist hit his bicycle for no apparent reason on a quiet, straight road one Whitsun holiday. The extremely intense, introspective, almost psychedelic description and observation is surprisingly compelling and often very funny, as we drift from place to place, develop odd obsessions and friendships and try to find direction in a strange, compromised new world. Welch's accident took place when he was 20, and an art student at Goldsmiths. He died at 33 as a result of complications arising from a fractured spine, before he was able to complete this book. Read this and see why Burroughs said "When asked what writer has most directly influenced my own work I can answer without hesitation: Denton Welch. Welch makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes".
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