The Long Form (Paperback)

It’s early morning and there’s a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she’ll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It is a day of movements and improvisations, common and uncommon rhythms, stopping and starting again. As the morning progresses, a book – The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding – gets delivered, and the scope of the day widens further. Matters of care-work share ground with matters of friendship, housing, translation, aesthetics and creativity. Small incidents of the day revive some of the oldest preoccupations of the novel: the force of social circumstance, the power of names, the meaning of duration and the work of love. With lightness and precision, Kate Briggs renews Henry Fielding’s proposition for what a novel can be, combining fiction and essay to write an extraordinary domestic novel of far-reaching ideas.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Kate Briggs
Dimensions:	198 x 127 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-1-80427-032-5
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80427-032-6
Barcode:	9781804270325

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