Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine MacCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into a novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. This is a daring and thrilling novel from one of the most astute observers of celebrity and tragedy. It is sure to make the headlines itself for the way it is written and for the controversial subjects he tackles. In "Born Yesterday" Gordon Burn creates a whole new way of writing a novel, and makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us.
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One of Britain’s most fearless writers takes on real news stories in the most ambitious and innovative novel of the year.
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Gordon Burn was born in Newcastle in 1948 and now lives in London. He is the author of three novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove and The North of England Home Service, and non-fiction titles including Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son, Happy Like Murderers and Best and Edwards.
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A Complete Waste of Time,
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This review is from: Born Yesterday (Paperback)
The purpose of fiction is to explain life. This book uses trivia and celebrity to fill its pages. It explains nothing. It gossips.
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