Another Lost Generation
Three Gritty Ace Books
TEDDY BOY by Ernest Ryman

Readable from cover to cover - New Statesman

More documentary than novel, but it is always interesting, human and often very funny. No one - either the wise headmaster or the inveterately criminal Rawnie - is larger than life - Daily Telegraph

...the honest sincerity of his approach to the problems of adolescent delinquency... a thoughtful, informative portrait - Times Literary Supplement

His characters (among the boys) live because they are drawn straight from life - Evening News

I found these case histories of delinquent boys presented, not without hope, still less without humour, wholly absorbing - Oxford Mail

Bound edition first published in England in 1958 by Michael Joseph Limited, London, WC1
© 1958 by Ernest Ryman
First Ace Books edition 1960

Bound edition first published in England in 1957 by Neville Spearman Limited, London W1
© 1957 by Neville Spearman. 
First Ace Books edition 1960. Reprinted November 1961		 A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE 
by Nelson Algren

By comparison, Tennessee William's Streetcar is drawing-room comedy ... crackles like a high-tension cable ... it drives home, in an unforgettable way, the crippling distortions that can twist the human soul when it has sunk beyond hope and self-respect.
(Peter Green - Daily Telegraph, writing about the movie adaptation, which stars Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter and Barbara Stanwyck)


Jane Fonda
CORNER BOY 
by Herbert Simmons

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
To say that the author uses his sordid material with unusual good taste is not enough ... it is typical of Mr. Simmon's deep sophistication that he does not feel compelled to defend his delinquents by insisting upon their colour ... it is, quite simply, a brilliant, mature and well-balanced novel.

THE GUARDIAN
Herbert Simmons writes well and effectively ... about vice and crime among adolescent negroes in an American city slum; drug-peddling, drug-taking, gang fights, razor-slashing, joyless fornication, and with the juke-boxes blaring all day long, all night long.

DAILY MAIL
A book that is bound to evoke understanding for the wasted young lives who rot in the unknown quarters of our big cities ... It is a book of character and stature.

YORKSHIRE POST
What it pictures is deep corruption ... Mr Simmons is much more than a propagandist; he is already, in this first novel, an achieved writer.

A Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award


Herbert Simmons

Bound edition first published in England in 1958 
by Methuen & Co Ltd, London WC2
© 1957 by Herbert A Simmons. 
First Ace Books edition 1960.
Thanks to Salo Wolf for lending me the Nelson Algren book.

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