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The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize (Hardcover, Main Market Ed.)
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths
Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for
Historical Fiction. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy
hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring' John
Banville, Guardian 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 fracture in American
history, one that also allowed noir to flourish. The Dream had gone
sour but - as those dark, classic movies made clear - the country
needed outsiders to study and dramatise its new anxieties. 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.
Robin Robertson's The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality.
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