Absolute Beginners The Twentieth-Century Cult Classic

Name: Absolute Beginners The Twentieth-Century Cult Classic
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ISBN: 9780749009984

ISBN-10: 0749009985

ISBN-13: 9780749009984

Edition: 2011

Authors: Colin MacInnes

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London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill . . . a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless - the absolute beginners - were creating a world as different as they dared from the traditional image of England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records the moments of a young teenager's life in the capital - sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, the era of the first race riots and the lead up to the swinging sixties . . . A twentieth century classic, Absolute Beginners remains the style bible for anyone interested in the Mod culture and paints a vivid picture of a changing society with insight and…

Book details

List price: $8.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Allison & Busby, Limited
Publication date: 6/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 4.41" wide x 8.39" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

A talented off-beat journalist and social observer, COLIN MACINNES is best known for his trilogy of London novels which includes Absolute Beginners as well as City of Spades and Mr Love and Justice. He also wrote about the allied occupation of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, in June in Her Spring and England, Half English. Colin MacInnes' essays were published in Out of the Way, in 1980. He died in 19765.