The long take, or a way to lose more slowly
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,...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Robertson, Robin, |d 1955- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The long take, or a way to lose more slowly / |c Robin Robertson. |
| 246 | 3 | 4 | |a Long take : |b a noir narrative |
| 250 | |a First American edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2018. | |
| 300 | |a 237 pages ; |c 20 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1946 -- 1948 -- 1951 -- 1953 -- Credits. | |
| 586 | |a Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018. | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a 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 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Veterans |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Post-traumatic stress disorder |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Film noir |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Journalists |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a City and town life |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Los Angeles (Calif.) |x History |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Los Angeles (Calif.) |x Social conditions |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Los Angeles (Calif.) |x Race relations |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Los Angeles (Calif.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Social conditions |y 1945- |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Novels in verse. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Poetry. |2 lcgft | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Robertson, Robin, 1955- |t Long take or a way to lose more slowly. |b First American edition. |d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019 |z 9780525655220 |w (DLC) 2018014292 |
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