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- 236 páginas
- 9 horas de lectura
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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
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 2019
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- Título
- The Long Take
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Robin Robertson
- Editorial
- Pan Macmillan
- Publicado en
- 2019
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 236
- ISBN10
- 1509886257
- ISBN13
- 9781509886258
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Tema histórico, Novelas históricas, Ciencias políticas & Política, Poesía, Política, EE.UU., Guerras, Literatura americana, Novelas sociales, Nueva York, América, Historia del siglo XX, Noir, San Francisco, Premio Booker, Cine negro
- Descripción
- 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.