Here is a fascinating project that doesn’t catch fire. Colin MacInnes’ brilliant 1959 novel about the first teenagers, the new television age of instant celebrity, pop and jazz, and the Notting Hill ...
THE LONDON NOVELS OF COLIN MacINNES (CITY OF SPADES, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, MR. LOVE AND JUSTICE). 626 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $7.50. On one side is “the great community of the mugs,” also known ...