Alma Cogan

Winner of the Whitbread Best First Novel of the Year In his classic debut novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling vocalist of the 1950s and turns her story into an equation of celebrity and murder. Fictional characters jostle for space with real life stars - from John Lennon to Doris Day and Sammy Davis Jnr - as Burn, in a breathtaking act of appropriation, reinvents the popular culture of the post-war years. As beautifully written as it is disturbing, Alma Cogan remains a stingingly relevant exploration of the sad, dark underside of fame. Includes a new introduction by Adelle Stripe.

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Burn, Burn Gordon
• Assisted by: Adelle Stripe (Introduction), Stripe Adelle (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780571347285
• ISBN: 978-0-571-34728-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Media Tie-In, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary