How does it feel to be never allowed to die? 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.
'An extraordinary, unprecedented novel. Audacious, innovative and totally compelling.' William Boyd
- ISBN10 0749398167
- ISBN13 9780749398163
- Publish Date 4 June 1992 (first published 27 August 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Minerva
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English