Ebook {Epub PDF} The Long Take by Robin Robertson

The world Robin Robertson creates in The Long Take (Picador, ) is both seedy and violent, one slated for demolition and evoking the textures of film noir cities, with ‘Everything / moving on the street, and across it, straight lines / and diagonals. Drug-stores, grocery stores, / snack joints, www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.  · The Long Take. Written by Robin Robertson. Robin Robertson’s lyrical narrative follows a good man haunted by war and violence - 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. He looks instead to the great US cities for freedom, anonymity and repair. Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of 21st-century English-language literature.” —Eileen Battersby, Financial Times. “A blisteringly beautiful vision of America rotting in the aftermath of the Second World War/5().

Free download or read online The Long Take pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in February 22nd , and was written by Robin Robertson. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this poetry, fiction story are. The Long Take. by Robin Robertson. The world Robin Robertson creates in The Long Take (Picador, ) is both seedy and violent, one slated for demolition and evoking the textures of film noir cities, with 'Everything / moving on the street, and across it, straight lines / and diagonals. Drug-stores, grocery stores, / snack joints, diners. Robertson transforms the long take into an epic taking of life, liberty, reason, and hope in this saga of a good man broken by war and a city savaged by greed, an arresting and gorgeously lyrical and disquieting tale of brutal authenticity, hard-won compassion, and stygian splendor." —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) "Immaculately.

The Long Take, or A Way to Lose More Slowly, known simply as The Long Take, is a novel in narrative poetry form with noir style by Scottish poet Robin Robertson. It was published in by Picador. The story-line is set in United States post World War II. Robertson received the Goldsmiths Prize, Walter Scott Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for this work. Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of 21st-century English-language literature.” —Eileen Battersby, Financial Times. “A blisteringly beautiful vision of America rotting in the aftermath of the Second World War. In The Long Take, which has an epical feel, Robin Robertson, one of the finest lyric poets of our time, deploys his artistic reach in a fiction narrative of more than pages, composed in a.