The Long Take
by Robin Robertson
The Long Take is the winner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. This powerful and extraordinary novel follows a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America.
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“Original, innovative and, in our judgement, durable, with writing of such power that you occasionally have to stop to recover. The Long Take is a work of supreme artistry. Walter Scott would have read it and marvelled.” Read more...
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“It is a poem, mostly; it’s in free verse. Anybody who reads seriously admires writers who can make the constraints work—who can set themselves a challenge, a formal challenge, and solve it….. I admired this book very much. Again, you might say, ‘Oh, you just put a poem on there because you thought it would be edgy and different.’ But it’s on there because we all loved it and we admired it.” Read more...
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Philosopher
The Long Take is the winner of the 2019 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, this powerful and extraordinary novel follows a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, as he goes in search of freedom and repair in post-war America. The audiobook of The Long Take is narrated by Canadian actor Kerry Shale.
Narrator: Kerry Shale
Length: 5 hours and 26 minutes
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