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John Bemrose’s highly acclaimed national bestseller tells the story of a family who slips from fortune’s favour in a southwestern Ontario mill town during the mid-1960s. Like his father before him, Alf Walker is a fixer in the local textile mill. When a labour dispute forces him to choose between loyalty to his friends and his own advancement, Alf’s actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future. Meanwhile, Alf’s wife, Margaret, must reconcile her middle-class upbringing with her blue-collar reality, as her marriage is undermined by forces she cannot name. And after their eldest son, Joe, falls headlong for a girl he first glimpses on a bridge, the boy finds his world overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love. At once intimate and epic in scope, The Island Walkers follows the Walker family to the very bottom of their night, only to confirm, in the end, life’s regenerative power.
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"Clear-eyed narration and gorgeous description...a profoundly sensitive portrayal of a family's efforts to find its way through the tangled threads of desire and nobility, guilt and love." --Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor
"Bemrose's poetic touch...finds beauty in obscure corners and grandeur in small victories." --Baltimore Sun
"As fine as any [novel] you will read this year...Among its pleasures is that which comes from reading a writer with a genuine sense of place." --New York Sun
Already a bestseller in Canada - a spellbinding first novel about a family that slips from fortune's favour
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- PublisherEmblem Editions
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0771011121
- ISBN 13 9780771011122
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages512
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