- Poetry (poetic works by one author), United states, poetry
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity and repair. We follow Walker through a sequence of poems as he moves through post-war American cities of New York, Los Angles and San Francisco.
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Grave, prestige, earnest and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Robin Robertson
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, PAN MACMILLAN U.K, Picador
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509886258
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