Who wrote The Long Take?

Robin Robertson wrote The Long Take, first published in 2018. It is a work of literary fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

Is there a book club guide for The Long Take?

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Essential Read

The Long Take

Name: The Long Take
Author: Robin Robertson

by Robin Robertson · 2018

Literary Fiction · ranked #251 in category

Winner · The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2019

Walker, a D-Day veteran from Nova Scotia, drifts through Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York in the years after the Second World War, unable to return home, haunted by what he saw and did in Normandy. Robertson's Walter Scott Prize-winning work — part novel, part book-length poem — captures postwar American cities being demolished for freeways while a generation of traumatised veterans disappear into them.

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