Robin Robertson

The Long Take

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this powerful and extraordinary novel follows a D-Day veteran as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America.

Produktdetails

• Picador Collection
• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 129mm x 197mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781035062331
• ISBN-10: 103506233X
• Artikelnr.: 72489408

Autorenporträt

Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. He has published six previous books of poetry and received various accolades, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes. His last book, The Long Take - a narrative poem set in post-war America - won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize., Robin Robertson is from the north-east coast of Scotland. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published six books of poetry and received a number of accolades, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes. His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, came out in 2014. The Long Take won the Roehampton Poetry Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction and the Walter Scott Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Rezensionen

The Long Take is like a film noir on the page. A book about a man and a city in shock, it's an extraordinary evocation of the debris and ongoing destruction of war even in times of peace. In taking a scenario we think we know from the movies but offering a completely different perspective, Robin Robertson shows the flexibility a poet can bring to form and style. Man Booker judges' citation