The long take, or a way to lose more slowly / Robin Robertson
By: Robertson, Robin [author].
Series: Picador poetry: Publisher: London : Picador, ©2018Description: 236 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509846887.Other title: Long take | Way to lose more slowly.Subject(s): Veterans -- Poetry | Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Poetry | English poetry -- 21st century | United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- PoetryGenre/Form: Noir poetry. | Novels in verse. | Poetry. | Noir poetry. | Novels in verse. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PR6068.O1925 L66 2018 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000013501 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-236)
1946 -- 1948 -- 1951 -- 1953 -- Credits
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York, Los Angles and San Francisco
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2018