- Paperback: 119 pages
- Publisher: Tindal Street Press (1 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0953589536
- ISBN-13: 978-0953589531
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 16.5 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 469,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Andrew Biswell, Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2000
'This is a terrifying story about a persecuted man wrongly imprisoned in a mental hospital. As the horrors of institutional life accumulate, Gul Y Davis's novella recalls Franz Kafka at his darkest.'
Tina Jackson, Big Issue, 9 October 2000
'Gul Y Davis' depiction of life inside the psychiatric system is made even more horrifying because of the sharp, clear way it is written. In a short book which packs an almighty punch, Davis follows one patient, beset by paranoid delusions, through a nightmarish mental health system. It's an unsparing, frightening book which conveys the hallucinatory horror of derangement heightened by the fear of being trapped in an uncaring system. Chilling.'
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Best debut novel of the year. By miles.,
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This review is from: A Lone Walk (Paperback)
Late one night Wil Shaw, alone and distressed in his bedroom, gets out of bed, treads his dinner into the carpet, goes downstairs and out the front door, and walks off into the gloom dressed only in his pyjamas. So begins the lone walk of the title, a desperate attempt to escape his demons and find a place to belong. Wil is seventeen. He has been in care for ten years and has just completed his first week back at his mother's house. It is an attempt by the authorities to integrate Wil back into the community rather than introduce him to adult psychiatric care and a life in institutions. So far it isn't working.What follows is an incredibly frank and unsentimental account of the terrible suffering and often cruel treatment experienced by the mentally ill, recounted by the voice of an innocent. It's the Catcher in the Rye meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and it is surprising to come across a young writer with the skills and discipline to make it work. It works because of Davis' humanity and sensibility. He can write too which is always useful, with a keen eye for imagery and an apparent ease in shifting registers and moods. This is a novella with a pained, anguished message, a story which demands the reader's attention, and once you are in its thrall it won't let you off lightly. A Lone Walk will divide readers and critics alike. It accurately documents the confused, escapist mind of the mentally ill, and at times the language borders on magic realism and fantasy (mermaids and guardian angels feature heavily) -- but without ever becoming tiresome or overbearing. Of all the books so far published by Tindal Street Press this is the one that could conceivably acquire cult status. A disturbing and challenging debut by a promising young writer.
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