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  • Essayist and novelist Colin MacInnes
    In Colin MacInnes: Absolute Beginners

    Sometimes compared to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Absolute Beginners (1959) follows a nameless teenaged photographer as he moves episodically from one London scene to another, indignant at the bloodless society of the “taxpayers.” Along the way he reflects on…

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