The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men

Rebels without a cause

A product of the Age of Anxiety, this is today's writer: the HIPSTER, a man without a country -- who digs everything and is shocked by nothing -- whose greatest demand upon society is that it permit him to indulge in his own "kicks" unmolested.

Riotously funny at times, deadly serious at others, often brutal but always pointed, these Beat and Angry young men are the logical spokesmen for our confused and confusing atomic age. Out of its chaos they have fashioned some of the most brilliantly dynamic literature of our time.


inside front cover (endleaf), The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, Dell Publishing, 1958