Gordon Burn dies in Jul 09

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Gordon Burn dies in Jul 09

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1Moomin_Mama
Sep 14, 2009, 10:23 am

I've been looking into more of Gordon Burn's work (two of his books have been mentioned in the message boards - Happy Like Murderers and Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son - and sadly found this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/20/gordon-burn-obituary

A real shame. He wasn't only a writer of "disturbing" books - the one I read wasn't disturbing for the sake of it, or because of the subject matter alone, but because he was able to get under the skin of his subjects in a way I haven't come across before.

2Booksloth
Feb 27, 2010, 8:01 am

I only heard of his death a couple of weeks ago. He was a great writer who actually made some very disturbing subjects quite literary. I still think his best was probably Alma Cogan but there are quite a few to choose from. A sad loss.