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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 film 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.
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The Long Take, Robin Robertson
- Language
- Released
- 2019
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Very Good
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- €4.39
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- Title
- The Long Take
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robin Robertson
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 236
- ISBN10
- 1509886257
- ISBN13
- 9781509886258
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Political Science & Politics, Poetry, Politics, USA, Wars, American Literature, Literary Fiction, New York, America, Contemporary History, Noir, San Francisco, Booker Prize, Film Noir
- Description
- 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 film 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.