The long take : or, a way to lose more slowly / Robin Robertson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First United States editionDescription: 237 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525655213
- 0525655212
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Poetry
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Poetry
- Film noir -- Poetry
- Journalists -- Poetry
- City and town life -- Poetry
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Poetry
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- Poetry
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- Poetry
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Poetry
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Poetry
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.
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**Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize**
**Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize**
From the award-winning British author--a poet's noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself.
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 finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but--as those dark, classic movies made clear--the country needed outsiders to study and to dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities. Robin Robertson's fluid verse pans with filmic immediacy across the postwar urban scene--and into the heart of an unforgettable character--in this highly original work of art.
Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, London, in 2018.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236).
1946 -- 1948 -- 1951 -- 1953 -- Credits.
A Canadian veteran of D-Day travels through New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, struggling with his memories of the war and experiencing firsthand America's postwar social and racial divisions. The story is told in verse and illustrations -- adapted from cover description.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018.