Volume 18, Number 4 · March 9, 1972
Youth and Asia
By Christopher Ricks
Girl, 20
by Kingsley Amis
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 253 pp., $5.95
The Tiger's Daughter
by Bharati Mukherjee
Houghton Mifflin, 210 pp., $5.95
'The whole generation-gap idea's just an invention of the media and the Yanks. You obviously don't know the first thing about youth in the true sense. You've no conception what it's like, what it knows, what it can do.' So says Sir Roy Vandervane, nearly fifty-four, symphonic conductor, fashionable randy leftist, and the hero, in a way, of Kingsley Amis's novel Girl, 20. Meanwhile The Tiger's Daughter recalls that in India there are left-of-leftists:
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