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The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s is a 2002 book by the English writer Humphrey Carpenter. It is about the angry young men, a loosely defined group of British writers who came to prominence in the mid to late 1950s, including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, John Osborne, Colin Wilson, John Braine, Stan Barstow, John Wain, and Keith Waterhouse.

The subtitle refers to the angry young men as an ephemeral mass-media phenomenon, which largely consisted of a series of farcical anecdotes about the writers who were given the label. According to Carpenter, a major challenge when writing the book was that he remained unsure of whether the group ever existed beyond being a label in the tabloid press.

References

1. Preston, Peter (1 September 2002). "Not raging but clowning". The Observer. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
2. Mortimer, John (12 October 2002). "The wrong label that stuck". The Spectator. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
3. "Look back in puzzlement". The Times. 23 August 2003. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
4. Kermode, Frank (28 November 2002). "Snarling". London Review of Books. 24 (23). Retrieved 11 December 2024.

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