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...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A brilliant, terrible, autobiographical novel recapitulates the story of the tragic auto accident that broke Author Welch's body but gave him the clarity of a man seeing life for the last time...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD by Denton Welch. 254 pages. University of Texas...
Literature was conscious of no loss when Britain's Denton Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33. A gaunt, gifted art student, he had been invalided at 20 when a motorist crashed into his bicycle, fracturing his spine. Often unable to paint, scarcely able to walk, he took up his pen and wrote two books of stories, two fictionalized autobiographies of boyhood, a lengthy journal and this brilliant, terrible novel. Published in England in 1950, it received scant attention; but critics have recently recognized Welch's memoir as a minor masterpiece, and it has now been...
...unreal nutcracker severity from the curve and compression of her nose and lips. It was as if a heavy weight on her head had crumpled the features underneath." Railroad tracks, "like never-ending stilettos, seemed to pierce into the grey, veined, bulging heart of the future." From his sickbed, Denton Welch saw life with the poignant clarity of a man seeing it for the last time...
...orders to reduce his work load (among his other jobs: chairmanship of the S.C.M. Corp., formerly Smith Corona Marchant). Litchfield leaves with the legislature still debating whether to put privately endowed Pitt under state control and with trustees divided as to what he has actually accomplished. Banker Frank Denton brusquely dismissed his plans as "pipe dreams." But Trustee Chairman Gwilym Price, accepting the resignation, wrote Litchfield: "You have done more for the University of Pittsburgh in a decade than most men could have accomplished in half a century...