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The island walkers : a novel / John Bemrose.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.B3776 I85 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bemrose, John, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class families--Fiction.
- Working class families.
- Textile workers.
- Textile industry--Fiction.
- Textile industry.
- Textile workers--Fiction.
- Social classes--Fiction.
- Social classes.
- Labor unions--Fiction.
- Labor unions.
- Ontario--Fiction.
- Ontario.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 450 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, 2005.
- Summary:
- Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A Finalist for the 2003 Giller Prize Across a bend of Ontario's Attawan River lies the Island, where, for generations, the Walkers have lived among other mill workers. But in the summer of 1965, with the threat of mill closures looming, the Walkers grapple with their personal crises, just as the rest of the town fights to protect its way of life. Superbly crafted and deeply moving, this book is at once a love letter to a place, a gripping family saga, and testimony to the emergence of an important new novelist.
- ISBN:
- 0312423691
- OCLC:
- 57653746
- Publisher Number:
- 9780312423698
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