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...that it answers this question better collectively than any one of the semi-articulate Beats and Angries has done on his own. The editors have culled the best from both schools (the U.S.'s Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Clellon Holmes; Britain's Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Osborne) and leavened the lot with sharp-eyed critical commentaries from both sides of the water. U.S. readers will find the Beat section more interesting, if only because it helps to illuminate such postwar phenomena as the James Dean cult, the Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll crazes...
...CONTENDERS (278 pp.)-John Wain-St. Martin...
Novelist John Wain, 33, is identified by his British critics and his U.S. publisher as one of the Angry Young Men, but his second novel to cross the Atlantic does not look back in anger. It is a lively, funny story, essentially an American-style narrative about how men make good in a bad way in the big city and learn that success in the end is nothing but dust and ashes...
...barking up the wrong tree. Between the artist who sneers at "gobbets of bourgeois wisdom" and the businessman who is nothing but "a lousy provincial potter," it turns out to be fat, good-natured old Joe who achieves love, wisdom and an upbeat ending for good-natured young Novelist Wain...
...most significant quarrel that Amis and Co. have with their literary predecessors is not that they had money but that they had causes. As Novelist John Wain puts it: "It was the last age, consciously and feverishly the last, in which people had the feeling that if they only took the trouble to join something, get a party card, wear a special shirt, organise meetings and bellow slogans, they could influence the course of events. Since 1946 nobody above the Jehovah's Witness level has taken this attitude...