English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies

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MacInnes, Colin

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MacInnes, Colin (1914–76), novelist, the son of A. Thirkell, was brought up partly in Australia. The novels for which he is best remembered, City of Spades (1957) and Absolute Beginners (1959), describe teenage and black immigrant culture, and the new bohemian underworld of Notting Hill, coffee bars, jazz clubs, drink, and homosexuality. His other novels include To the Victors the Spoils (1950) and June in Her Spring (1952, set in Australia). MacInnes called himself an ‘anarchist sympathizer’ and defended several of the causes of the sixties, including Black Power and the writers of Oz.

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