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Young Men, although this association is largely misrepresentative of his fiction. There is a certain amount of annoyance with conventional society in Hurry On Down, but this is never given the left-wing political or ideological direction that was assumed by later Angry writers such as Osborne and Sillitoe.

John Wain was a member of a generation of British writers after World War II whose work provided some social criticism of the opinions and customs of ordinary Britons

John Wain was a member of a generation of British writers after World War II whose work provided some social criticism of the opinions and customs of ordinary Britons. There’s more than one way to do this kind of thing, but these writers usually chose to allow their protagonists to be callous and aggressive.

Hurry on Down - John Wain. Ultimately, Hurry on Down represents a new mode of critical realism that was taken up by a number of British writers in the 1950s and beyond. Its pragmatic criticism of the inherited moral and ideological codes of the Establishment sets a tone for a generation, and its skepticism towards pretensions in whatever form they might appear is at the heart of Wain’s honesty as a writer.

John Wain was a member of a generation of British writers after World War II whose work provided some social criticism . John Wain's literary excellence lies in his simple style of writing. Hurry on Down is a study of disaffected youth in 1950's Britain

John Wain was a member of a generation of British writers after World War II whose work provided some social criticism of the opinions and customs of ordinary Britons. Hurry on Down is a study of disaffected youth in 1950's Britain.

A great fund of comic invention

A great fund of comic invention  . For the most part, the novel has been lucidly strung together, and save for a slow, wordy beginning it is only once in a while that it loses momentum, showing signs of being the authors first major work.

Not to be confused with John Waine or John Wayne. Wain wrote his first novel, Hurry on Down, in 1953: a comic picaresque story about an unsettled university graduate who rejects the standards of conventional society. John Barrington Wain CBE (14 March 1925 – 24 May 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as "The Movement". Other notable novels include Strike the Father Dead (1962), a tale of a jazzman's rebellion against his conventional father, and Young Shoulders (1982), winner of the Whitbread Prize, the tale of a young boy dealing with the death of loved ones.

The e-book makes an intensive study of John Wain as an English novelist in the larger perspective of. .

The e-book makes an intensive study of John Wain as an English novelist in the larger perspective of contemporary period. Let it be remembered at the outset that there are writers like Dryden and Flaubert of whom it can be said that the excitement that generates their work is partly a critical excitement. This is true of John Wain as well. In fact, critical awareness was in his grain, and he was acutely aware of it very early in life. So, Wain's desire to be a 'critical writer' was shadowed when he was twelve or so.

Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957)

Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957).

Hurry On Down is a cassette by the New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith released in 1988. Side B was recorded live at 3am at the Regent Theatre 24-hour book sale. Most of the songs were later performed by Plagal Grind. The cover photograph was taken on the St David Street footbridge.

His books include novels, short stories and literary criticism. His best-known book is: Hurry on Down (1953).

He was a university lecturer before he became a full-time writer. His books include novels, short stories and literary criticism. p. 36 Swiftly free-wheeling, their breath coming easily, the man and the boy steered their bicycles down the short dip which led them from woodland into open country. Then they looked ahead and saw that the road began to climb.