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Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel
Gordon Burn
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Description for Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel
Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571240265
SKU
KEX0200943
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-4
About Gordon Burn
Gordon Burn is 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 is 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.
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