Pocket Money by Gordon Burn

Pocket Money by Gordon Burn

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A look at the wheeling and dealing, the intense rivalries, the petty jealousies, the jubilation and the heartbreak of the professional snooker circus, which Gordon Burn followed for a year to venues from the North of England to China. Burn also wrote the novel, "Alma Cogan".

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Pocket Money by Gordon Burn

Gordon Burn spent a year travelling with the professional snooker circus, from Hong Kong and China to out-of-season seaside resorts in the North of England and cliff-hanging finals in Sheffield. In this book he records the wheeling and dealing, the intense rivalries, the petty jealousies, the jubilation and heartbreak of personalities such as Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White, Steve Davis and Alex Higgins. Burn won the Whitbread Prize for the Best First Novel of 1991 with "Alma Cogan".
Burn, Gordon: - 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.
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ISBN 13 9780749313333
ISBN 10 0749313331
Title Pocket Money
Author Gordon Burn
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 1992-09-03
Number of pages 222
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.