A challenging new critical study
by the author of
After the Lost Generation
In Search of Heresy
AMERICAN LITERATURE
IN AN A GE OF
CONFORMITY
by
John
WAldridge
In the uncompromising tones of another Mencken, John
W. Aldridge tots up our current literary shortcomings. His
bold pen and searching eye are turned on today's novels
and writers with devastating effect. The range of this impor–
tant, iconoclastic book is wide. Mr. Aldridge mourns the pass–
ing of the author as an individual, unaffiliated with campus
or clique, and strikes out against literary pretense, low critical
standards and the narrowing horizons of the Little Magazines.
Among the writers prominently discussed are William Styron,
Saul Bellow, J. D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Malcolm
Cowley, James T. Farrell and David Riesman.
$4.00
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Also just published
MAN IN SEARCH OF HIS ANCESTORS
by
Andr~
Senet
A part of the brilliant PIon series ("Gods,
Graves, and Scholars," etc.) this popular his–
tory of paleontology is scholarly, authentic,
dramatic, and, well, let's face it-fascinating!
Written with zest, nuggeted with information,
it
presents the human side of the science that
seeks to discover the origin of man. Illustrated
with 110 drawings and 12 pages of photo-
graphs.
$5.50
At all bookstores
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