Absolute Beginners (Allison & Busby Classics)
London, 1958. Smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs. The young and the restless were creating a world as different as they dared from England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records a young teenager's life in the capital - sex, drugs and rock'n'roll; the...
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London, 1958. Smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars and hip hang-outs. The young and the restless were creating a world as different as they dared from England's green and pleasant land. Follow our young photographer as he records 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 cult classic, Absolute Beginners paints a vivid picture of a changing society with insight and sensitivity.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749009984 (0749009985)
Publish date: September 16th 2011
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Pages no: 286
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Modern,
English Literature,
Music
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Published in 1959, "Absolute Beginners" is the sort of novel that became extremely popular in the UK without leaving many traces elsewhere.To this day, the book written by Colin MacInnes is perceived as a "modern classic" on the eastern shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Some critics compare the impact o...
Absolute Beginners is remarkable - a dream of a novel. It is fast-paced, sweet-tempered, open-hearted, a golden book in many ways – a paean to youth, to a future brimming with possibility, to a present that is lived vibrantly and joyfully. It is also about selling out, junkies, prostitution, and rac...
There may well have been some fabulous satire to this novel of teenagers and advertising and race riots, but I'm afraid that at this great remove what I recall is the movie soundtrack. Which is awesome.
There may well have been some fabulous satire to this novel of teenagers and advertising and race riots, but I'm afraid that at this great remove what I recall is the movie soundtrack. Which is awesome.
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