The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
'This book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.' Elif ShafakA 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 period of crisis in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but - as those d…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5098-8625-8
- EAN: 9781509886258
- Produktnummer: 24083993
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.8 cm 208 g
- Gewicht: 208
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Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published six books of poetry and received a number of accolades, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes. His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, came out in 2014. The Long Take won the 2018 Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.http://robinrobertson.co.uk
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