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Critical Essay by Harriet Blodgett

1,011 words, approx. 4 pages

Critical Essay by Harriet Blodgett Colin MacInnes's little known trilogy of London novels comprises vividly composed fictions of the underside of London life. In City of Spades (1957), Absolute... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Mason

1,065 words, approx. 4 pages

Critical Essay by Michael Mason With his three London novels [City of Spades, Mr Love and Justice, and Absolute Beginners] Colin MacInnes hit on a marvellous subject-matter, into which he saw deeply. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Keith Waterhouse

496 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Keith Waterhouse Although the decade is almost over, there are few novelists writing about the late nineteen-fifties…. Most writers seem to have stopped taking notes around 19... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Sullivan

227 words, approx. 1 pages

Critical Essay by Richard Sullivan An ambiguous 18-year-old is the first-person narrator of "Absolute Beginners." And because the story he tells is so insistently his own it is an ambigu... Read more

Critical Essay by John G. Fuller

221 words, approx. 1 pages

Critical Essay by John G. Fuller For a good many moments in "Absolute Beginners" …, Colin Macinnes's novel of modern London teen-agers, you find yourself thinking that here... Read more