The Long Take
Robin Robertson
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations, is 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Picador
- Year
- 2018
- ISBN-13
- 9781509886258
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- PTSD and war traumaPost-war American citiesSearch for identity and belonging
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(2018)
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