Robin Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland and now lives in London. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has published five collections of poetry and has received a number of honours, 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, was published in 2014.
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. The Long Take is about a good man, brutalised by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it – yet resolved to find kindness again, in the world and in himself.
Watching beauty and disintegration through the lens of the film camera and the eye of the poet, Robin Robertson's The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality.
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假如Franz Lang像Robin Robertson一樣迷戀美國,《大都市》裏描繪的城市就會是這樣的: And there it was, the swell and glitter of it like a standing wave -- the fabled, smoking ruin, the new towers rising through the blue, the ranked array of ivory and gold, the...
評分假如Franz Lang像Robin Robertson一樣迷戀美國,《大都市》裏描繪的城市就會是這樣的: And there it was, the swell and glitter of it like a standing wave -- the fabled, smoking ruin, the new towers rising through the blue, the ranked array of ivory and gold, the...
評分假如Franz Lang像Robin Robertson一樣迷戀美國,《大都市》裏描繪的城市就會是這樣的: And there it was, the swell and glitter of it like a standing wave -- the fabled, smoking ruin, the new towers rising through the blue, the ranked array of ivory and gold, the...
評分假如Franz Lang像Robin Robertson一樣迷戀美國,《大都市》裏描繪的城市就會是這樣的: And there it was, the swell and glitter of it like a standing wave -- the fabled, smoking ruin, the new towers rising through the blue, the ranked array of ivory and gold, the...
評分假如Franz Lang像Robin Robertson一樣迷戀美國,《大都市》裏描繪的城市就會是這樣的: And there it was, the swell and glitter of it like a standing wave -- the fabled, smoking ruin, the new towers rising through the blue, the ranked array of ivory and gold, the...
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