{"product_id":"9781035062331","title":"The Long Take","description":"Author: Robin Robertson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781035062331\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of The Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'Bold, brilliant . . . this is as poignant and visual as classic film noir'\u003cb\u003e - Ian Rankin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'An incredible achievement'\u003cb\u003e - Irvine Welsh \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n'This book will shift something in your soul'\u003cb\u003e - Elif Shafak\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nA \u003ci\u003enoir\u003c\/i\u003e narrative written with the intensity and power of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take \u003c\/i\u003eis one of the most remarkable – and unclassifiable – books of recent years.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nWalker 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 \u003ci\u003efilm noir\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nWhile 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRobin Robertson's\u003ci\u003e The Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of thrilling originality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNOW IN THE PICADOR COLLECTION\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845862310046,"sku":"TLD-9781035062331","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781035062331.jpg?v=1781223236","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781035062331","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}