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Born Yesterday does what the media do every day: blurring the boundaries between what is real and what has been invented. In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year, and wove the strands together into an essential story for our time. The characters of these long-running reality soaps the McCanns, Blair, Brown, Kate Middleton are presented here in three dimensions, their stories told through revealing glimpses and startling insights.


With a new introduction by Gordon Burn''s editor, Lee Brackstone.

Born Yesterday The News as a Novel

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/10/2019
      ISBN13: 9780571353637, 978-0571353637
      ISBN10: 571353630
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      Book Synopsis

      Born Yesterday does what the media do every day: blurring the boundaries between what is real and what has been invented. In 2007, Gordon Burn took the extraordinary news headlines from that year, and wove the strands together into an essential story for our time. The characters of these long-running reality soaps the McCanns, Blair, Brown, Kate Middleton are presented here in three dimensions, their stories told through revealing glimpses and startling insights.


      With a new introduction by Gordon Burn''s editor, Lee Brackstone.

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