Robertson, R: The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker
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Verlag:Pan macmillan Ltd.
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
06.01.2022
Verlag
Pan macmillan Ltd.Seitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
19.7/15.3/2 cm
Gewicht
327 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5290-1728-1
'A ravishing achievement.' Ocean Vuong 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn' John Banville
A 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 beginning to come apart: deeply paranoid, doubting its own certainties, riven by social and racial division, spiralling corruption and the collapse of the inner cities. The Long Take is about a good man, brutalised by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it - yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself.
'Shows it is perfectly possible to write poetry which is both accessible and subtle, which has a genuine moral and social conscience' Stuart Kelly, Scotsman 'Breathes new air into the music of the English language . . . The Long Take will be remembered for its unparalleled originality, and an uncompromising power of storytelling' Kit Fan, Poetry Review
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