2 Books by Gordon Burn
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Overview: Gordon Burn was an English writer born in Newcastle upon Tyne and the author of four novels and several works of non-fiction. Burn’s novels deal with issues of modern fame and faded celebrity, as well as life through a media lens. His novel Alma Cogan (1991), which imagined the future life of the British singer Alma Cogan had she not died in the 1960s, won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel. His other novels Fullalove and The North of England Home Service appeared in 1995 and 2003 respectively. His non-fiction deals primarily with sport and true crime. His first book Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son was a study of Peter Sutcliffe, ‘the Yorkshire Ripper’ and his 1998 book Happy Like Murderers: The Story of Fred and Rosemary West, dealt in similar detail with one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
Fullalove
Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street’s finest. Now he’s a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead. But as he reports on a series of brutal murders and sex crimes, he’s forced to wonder whether he is just a witness – or part of some deeper pattern of cause and effect . . .
‘Remarkable . . . Devastating . . . Required reading for anyone interested in what British fiction should be doing today.’ Stephen Amidon, Esquire
The North of England Home Service
In a forensic dissection of Britain’s souring landscape Gordon Burn tells the tale of Ray Cruddas, a light entertainer effecting a semi-dignified retreat from his fading career, who returns to the unnamed northern town of his youth.
‘Burn carves a tale of mutual dependence between two also-rans – Ray, once a successful Geordie comedian, and Jackie, an almost made-it boxer . . . It is a book about ageing, about the long haul between what you hoped your life might be and the acceptance of what it is – and about the loneliness of men.’ Anna Raeburn, Jewish Chronicle
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