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 ...
A real time-sensitive novel of 1960 from the very complex pen of gay & 'constitutionally racist'? malcontent MacInnes, which 'peels back the foreskin' of London's world of barely-disguised vice & seedy, symbiotic relationships between the prostitutes,ponces & policemen & the moral majority,who tu...
