The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
'A ravishing achievement.' Ocean Vuong'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn' John BanvilleA noir narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, The Long Take is one of the most remarkable - and unclassifiable - books of recent years. Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity and repair. As he moves from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco we witness a crucial period of crisis in American history, one that also allowed noir to flourish. While Walker tries to piece his life together, America is begi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5290-1728-1
- EAN: 9781529017281
- Produktnummer: 29242671
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B15.3 cm
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Robin Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland and now lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published five collections of poetry and has received a number of honours, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and all three Forward Prizes. He is also the author of a collection of selected poems, Sailing the Forest
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