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Alma Cogan (Paperback)

by Gordon Burn (Author)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (4 Mar 2004)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0571222846
ISBN-13: 978-0571222841
Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 1.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 294,076 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An extraordinary, unprecedented novel. Audacious, innovative and totally compelling.'

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How does it feel to be never allowed to die? In this 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Burn burns darkly, 7 April 2003

By	Al Kitching (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alma Cogan: A Novel (Paperback)

Gordon Burn is probably unique.

Not an easy phrase to throw around, is it? We live, I fear, in a world where 'awe' and 'splendour' is all too simple to achieve and compartmentalise. Mundane products are advertised with grandiose soul stirring taglines. The world, as David Thewlis's character in 'Naked' says, has been explained to us, and we're bored with it. Consequently, to sell anything to anyone, we are promised The Experience Of A Lifetime (TM) regardless of whether we're talking a new car, a pair of sunglasses or the latest Pizza Hut pizza.

Gordon Burn, you can tell, doesn't agree with that. All his stuff says; Yeah? You reckon we're so great? Well just take a little look through this hole and then tell me what you think. He gives us a torch with dodgy batteries and chucks us head first into the dark, and lets us piece it all together slowly, languidly, with (as in Happy Like Murderers) seemingly mundane detail, until we have everything and just as we begin to put the bits together, the torch begins to flicker, and...

Alma Cogan takes a bold step forward into a fully realised fantasy world of alternative history and exposes the fickle nature of fame for a long-departed, nearly-forgotten star. The ending creeps up with superb tension and desperate ugliness.

No-one who reads Hello! or OK! has ever read this book.

As I say, the man's a genius.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Faded celebrity at its best, 1 April 2003

By	Mr. Peter Baber "machnew" (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Alma Cogan: A Novel (Hardcover)

The tie-up with Myra Hindley is perhaps a bit sensationalist. But as a study of faded celebrity this book has no equal. It's pretty good too at depicting an intelligent woman who's become a star in the innocent 1950s realising that a darker period in social mores is about to begin.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Happy like Murderers, 5 Mar 2004

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this is a fantastic indepth history of Fred and Rosemary West. it contains not only many facts about the couple, but also their victims and their historys. many of these facts I have not read any where else. a thoroughly recommended read.

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