Description Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction From the award-winning British author--a poet\'s Noir Narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself. uk. co. robinrobertson. www.
In the UK, The Long Take has won the 2018 Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, was published in 2014.
Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and all three Forward Prizes.
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A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published five collections of poetry and has received a number of honors, including the Petrarca-Preis, the E.
About the Author ROBIN Robertson was brought up on the northeast coast of Scotland and now lives in London.
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.
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.
The Dream had gone sour but--as those dark, classic movies made clear--the country needed outsiders to study and to dramatize its new anxieties.
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.
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.
Description Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction From the award-winning British author--a poet\'s Noir Narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it, yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself
