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Colin Wilson
The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men
London: Anova Books, 2007
When Colin Wilson sat down in 2006 to write his own history of the “Angry Young Men,” it was mainly a matter of settling accounts. There had been at least two other similarly-named books on the subject, and they were informative and entertaining.
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Thanks for this. Colin’s widow, Joy, once confided to me that while Colin did indeed sleep on Hampstead Heath for some time while he was starting his writing career, on particularly cold nights he sometimes spent the night at her place! Which was rather scandalous in 1950s Britain.
The synopsis-outline at the beginning was a common feature of Colin’s books throughout his career.
Never noticed that chapter synopsis thing elsewhere with Colin books. As a matter of fact, though I’ve been sitting on this one a long while, I only noticed it here in the last few weeks.
I thought of including some of those “candid” photos that Life and the London papers did in 1956-57, but I was having real trouble pulling the strands of this together without it becoming overlong and just went, naaah. That’s the trouble when you scribble in longhand at the beginning.
There are some very warm, peaceful, domestic shots that a newspaper took in the aftermath of the horsewhip incident. Joy looks quite mature, older in fact than when I met her 35 years later.
Recent podcast series on the Angries, Colin Wilson, Dwight Macdonald, 1950s London and more, even an interview with one of Colin Wilson’s girlfriends from 1956 https://theoryofeverythingpodcast.com/propaganda/
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