War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the 'Forties - Hardcover

Sinclair, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241125316 ISBN 13: 9780241125311

Publisher: Viking Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Describes how World War II and its aftermath affected literature and the arts in Britain

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Sinclair (born 1935) is a novelist, historian, critic and film-maker. He was a founding member of Churchill College, Cambridge. From his rich, varied and extensive bibliography Faber Finds is reissuing his first two novels, The Breaking of Bumbo and My Friend Judas, both published in 1959, his history of Prohibition in America, Prohibition: The Era of Excess and his cultural history of Britain in the 1940s, War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties.

From Library Journal:

Individuals wanting to immerse themselves in Fitzrovia and the British arts scene of the Forties can pick up this book. Relying heavily on quotation to create an air of authenticity, it moves quickly from theme to theme, and the result is a better understanding of a largely ignored decade, its cross-fertilization among the arts, its ethos (alienation), and its forms (short pieces and sketchwork prevailing). The atmosphere here is the message. However, the book does little to attract the general reader and demands a lot of patience. Names are thrown around with dizzying speed (page 120, selected at random, names 11 different individuals); they are sometimes made something of, and sometimes not. The well-knowns and the who-knows are jumbled together as they probably were in the pubs. Meanwhile, there may not be enough sustained argument to attract subject specialists. In sum, very interesting, but not essential.
-Robert E. Brown, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0241125316
• ISBN 13: 9780241125311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321