The Time We Have Taken
 First edition | |
| Author | Steven Carroll |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Fourth Estate, Australia |
Publication date | 2007 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 327 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7322-7836-8 |
| OCLC | 225253907 |
The Time We Have Taken is a 2007 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll.[1]
It is the third in the Glenroy Series sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s.[2] This entry oi the series was followed by Spirit of Progress (2011), Forever Young (2015), and The Year of the Beast (2019).
The novels have been described as a 'slow-moving, Proustian meditation on being and time'[3] and 'a deeply satisfying encounter with the empty spaces that the suburb failed to fill both between people and inside them.'[4]
Awards
- Commonwealth Writers Prize, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book, 2008: winner[5]
- Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: winner[6]
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 2007: shortlisted[7]
- The Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize, 2007: shortlisted[8]
Reviews
In The Age reviewer Michael McGirr noted that this series of novels "has the emotional stamina needed to draw life from the same characters over three independent novels". He concludes that the author "takes time to tell an untidy story with a gentle sense of wonder. His prose whispers loud."[9]
Katharine England, writing in The Advertiser found that the "repetitive accretion of detail, like the brush strokes of a pointillist, the echoes within the novel and from book to book, the use of tenses which base time in the present but refer constantly to past and future, contribute to the hypnotic effect of the whole."[10]
References
- ^ "The Time We Have Taken by Steven Carroll". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ "Glenroy Series by Stephen Carroll". Austlit. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ Review in "The Advertiser"
- ^ McGirr, Michael (2007-03-02). "The Time We Have Taken". The Age. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ ""2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize"". Literary Awards. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ "Miles Franklin Award winner 2008 - Steven Carroll". ABC Radio National. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ ""Franklin winner on short list"". Weekend Australian, 11 August 2007, p11. ProQuest 356332725. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ ""Prize writing; Awards"". The Age, 11 August 2007, p24. ProQuest 363975852. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ ""The Time We Have Taken"". The Age, 3 March 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ ""A meditation on time"". The Advertiser, 3 March 2007. ProQuest 355186595. Retrieved 14 December 2024.