Bibliograph

The long take ;, or, a way to lose more slowly, Robin Robertson

Type

Label

The long take ;, or, a way to lose more slowly, Robin Robertson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The long take ;

Oclc number

1029780169

Responsibility statement

Robin Robertson

Sub title

or, a way to lose more slowly

Summary

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 hisotry, 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

Table Of Contents

1946 -- 1948 -- 1951 -- 1953 -- Credits

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Long take, a noir narrative

Classification