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| Author | Gordon Burn |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Chris Shamwana |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Secker and Warburg |
Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 210 |
| ISBN | 0-436-20009-0 |
| OCLC | 53912263 |
Alma Cogan (ISBN 978-0-571-22284-1) is a 1991 novel by Gordon Burn, reprinted in 2004. It was Burn's first novel and won the Whitbread Book Award in 1991. In the UK it was published in 1991 with the title Alma Cogan. In the US, it was initially published as Alma. [1][2][3][4]
In real life, Alma Cogan was a well-known British light pop singer of the 1950s and early 1960s, known as "The Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice." A friend of the Beatles and many other pop acts of the era, Cogan died of cancer in 1966 at the age of 34.
- ^ "Alma Cogan". goodreads.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ Burn, Gordon (2004). Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn. ISBN 0571222846.
- ^ Alma Cogan: A Novel. Minerva. 1991. ISBN 978-0-436-20009-0. Retrieved 21 October 2013 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Alma Cogan: A Novel". abebooks.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013.