Book description
How does it feel to be never allowed to die? In his classic début
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.
'An extraordinary, unprecedented novel. Audacious, innovative and
totally compelling.' William Boyd
Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of
the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home
Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction
titles Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like
Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and
Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a
collection of his essays on art.
