Shortlisted for the Man Booker. Loved it from beginning to end. A fantastic tale of a Canadian WWII veteran called Walker who is traumatised by what he has seen and done during and after the D-Day landing and wanders through New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, watching America fall apart around him as he remembers snippets of the war and his pre-war life as he soaks himself in booze and empathises with the down and outs of Skid Row. He loves the movies and witnesses the filming of various film noir classics (dutifully footnoted by Robertson). Beautifully paced and modulated.