The Long Take by Robin Robertson

This book was long listed for the Booker prize, and is also on the New York Times list of notable books.  It has the feel of an epic novel, in that it is more like a long form poem that it is a novel.  The author is a lyric poet and he deploys his artistic reach in a fiction narrative of more than 200 pages, composed in a mixture of verse and prose. It is a beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring.
Walker is a WWII veteran, having served in the D-Day invasion, and coming home very much damaged by the war.  He is, in his way, as much a casualty of war as the friends and foes who died in the slaughterhouse that was the coast of Normandy in the summer of 1944.The book alters between his ramblings to New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in the post war expansion of society, which he views with a dispassionate eye, all the while he can be thrust back into the middle of battle in his mind without warning.  Really good depiction of the experience of PTSD.