In Youth is PleasureA gay classic coming of age novel and an unforgettable slice of British interwar upper middle class life Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen year old, he hates school and longs to be alone. Spending his Summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers who don't understand him, he explores ancient churches, spies on a man rowing in the river and collects antiques, escaping into his own