REPRINTS AND NEW EDITIONS
Sprightly Running. By John
Wain. Papennac. First published by Macmillan in 1962, this book is as interesting as one finds Wain himself. Those who believe him to be a serious, versatile but unspectacular novelist, critic and versifier find this autobiography surprising only in quite detaching Wain from any reputation he once had for angry, deprived provincialism (“Hurry on Down”) and placing him as a responsible and sober product of the English middle classes. The passages on Oxford during the war are the most valuable.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30971, 29 January 1966, Page 4
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