City of Spades

City of Spades

First edition
Author Colin MacInnes
Cover artist Alexander Weatherson
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher MacGibbon & Kee
Publication date
1957

City of Spades is a novel written by Colin MacInnes[1] published in 1957 and the first book in what is described as MacInnes’s London Trilogy. Following the adventures of Johnny Fortune, a recently arrived Nigerian immigrant, the novel bears witness to the emergent black culture in London in the late 1950s.[2]

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