Alan Burns

• Jun-1972
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2019
• / Literary
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Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst's surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction �" a theme which Burns here takes to its conclusion, showing man not merely trying to come to terms with desolation, but combati...

• Jan-2020
• / Literary
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Celebrations, Alan Burns's third novel, brings the inherent violence and oppression so apparent in Europe after the Rain into the setting of a family-owned factory, where social hierarchies, legal structures and humiliation keep the workers in lin...

• Feb-2020
• / Literary
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Buster was the first, and arguably the most traditional, work of fiction by Alan Burns �" dating from before his aleatoric style developed into “cutting up”, but displaying early examples of the trademark disjointed, brisk and biting style wh...

• Mar-2020
• / Literary
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Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define �" shot through with seemingly random newspaper headlines, poems, snatches of conversation and anecdote, which both heigh...

• May-2021
• / General Fiction
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Dreamerika!, Alan Burns's fourth novel, first published in 1972, provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty, serving up an idiosyncratic hotch-potch of history that gives an old tragedy new meaning. For this book, Burns collected news...