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 · The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison review – a man's attempt to remember Amnesia leaves our wartime hero in the dark, unable to remember who Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Yet, daringly, debut novelist Allison makes the story all his own. His rider—for so, until the penultimate page, is the protagonist known—is a man in search of self-recognition, looking for clues in the bag of letters he carries, but he is also keenly observant of the conflicts among nations and within the part-piratical, part-saintly band of brothers he’s fallen in with. The Letter Bearer. The novel The Letter Bearer was critically acclaimed when it was published in Author Robert Allison was nominated for, or won several prestigious awards, including the McKitterick Prize. The novel was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize.

Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison. at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! The Letter Bearer Robert Allison. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $25 (p) ISBN Buy this book. In Allison's poetic first novel, which breathes fresh life into World War II. The Rider has no memory of who he is, where he is, or how he came to be lying-dying- in the brutal heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his mailbag. The Letter Bearer is unlike any other novel of World War Two.

The McKitterick Prize from the Society of Authors has been awarded to Robert Allison for The Letter Bearer. The Letter Bearer has been shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award The Letter Bearer paperback edition reviewed by The Independent. The Letter Bearer. The novel The Letter Bearer was critically acclaimed when it was published in Author Robert Allison was nominated for, or won several prestigious awards, including the McKitterick Prize. The novel was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. Perhaps the worst thing that ever happened to the protagonist of Robert Allison’s Homeric novel, The Letter Bearer, is that he wasn’t killed outright when he rode over a mine somewhere in the Libyan desert. Death is everywhere in this tale.