Alma Cogan (25 page)
Authors: Gordon Burn
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.
This ebook edition published in 2010
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
All rights reserved
© Gordon Burn, 1991
The right of Gordon Burn to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
‘The Way You Do the Things You Do’, words and music by William ‘Smokey’ Robinson and Bobby Rogers © 1964 Jobete Music (UK) Ltd, 35 Gresse Street, London W1P 1PN
‘The Deadwood Stage’ (Fain/Webster), ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ (Fields/Kern), ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ © Warner Chappell Music Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Warner Chappell Music Ltd
‘Off the Peg’ by Louis MacNeice from
Collected Poems
, Ed. E. R. Dodds (Faber, 1966)
The quotation from Alan Bennett’s diary reproduced by permission of the
London Review of Books
The painting of Alma Cogan is by Peter Blake
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ISBN 978–0–571–26700–2
