Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting

Angry( -ish) young( -ish) men: Saturday night and Sunday Morning and Absolute Beginners -- Can the skinhead speak? A Clockwork Orange -- Youth culture goes metastatic: The Rachel Papers and the Buddha of Suburbia -- Sojourn in Babylon: The Commitments, Brixton rock, and East of Acre Lane -- Rave and heroin: Trainspotting