Absolute Beginners

Colin MacInnes

ISBN 10: 0140021426 / ISBN 13: 9780140021424

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1986

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001275299

Synopsis:

Penguin 1986 film edition paperback, vg+ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

About the Author: COLIN MACINNES (1914-76), son of novelist Angela Thirkell, cousin of Stanley Baldwin and Rudyard Kipling, grandson of Burne-Jones, was brought up in Australia but lived most of his life in London about which he wrote with a warts-and-all relish that earned him a reputation as the literary Hogarth of his day. Bisexual, outsider, champion of youth, ‘pale-pink’ friend of Black Londoners and chronicler of English life, MacInnes described himself as ‘a very nosy person’ who ‘found adultery in Hampstead indescribably dull’ and was much more at home in the coffee bars and jazz clubs of Soho and Notting Hill. A talented off-beat journalist and social observer, he is best known for his three London novels, City of Spades, Absolute Beginners and Mr Love and Justice. MacInnes died of cancer in 1976.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Absolute Beginners
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good