The new .book by
the author
of
After the Lost Generation
and
In Search of
Heresy
JohnWAldridge
.·THE
DEVIL INTHE FIRE
Retrospective Essays on American
·Literature and Culture 1951-1971
One of the few American critics of importance who have
written consistently and vigorously about the contempo–
rary American literary and social scene, John WAldridge,
in Harry T. Moore's words, may have
'·'invented organized criticism of
the postwar novel." His new
book is a broad, highly per–
sonalized view of our liter–
ature and culture from the.
fifties to the seventies, with
fresh assessments of such
writers as Hemingway, Frost,
Mailer, Mary McCarthy,
Updike, Eudora Welty,
Bellow, Jerzy Kosinski,
and many others.
In every way, THE DEVIL
IN THE FIRE is "stim–
ulating reading right
down to the
index.~' *
$12.50 at all bookstores
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