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), Absolut...
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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....
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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 1...
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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 ambig...
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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 her...
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Critical Essay by Harriet Blodgett
