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A powerful first novel about a family that slips from fortune's favor and a town broken by the forces of modernity Across a bend of Ontario's Attawan River lies the Island, a working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying sheds. Here, for generations, the Walkers have lived among the other mill workers. The family's troubles begin in the summer of 1965, when a union organizer comes to town and Alf Walker is forced to choose between loyalty to his friends at the mill and advancement up the company ranks. Alf's worries are aggravated by his wife, Margaret, who has never reconciled her middle-class English upbringing to her blue-collar reality. As the summer passes, Joe, their son, is also forced to reckon with his family's standing when he falls headlong for a beautiful newcomer on a bridge--a girl far beyond him, with greater experience and broader horizons. As the threat of mill closures looms, the Walkers grapple with their personal crises, just as the rest of the town fights to protect its way of life amid the risks of unionization and the harsh demands of corporate power. Superbly crafted and deeply moving, this remarkable debut follows the Walkers to the very bottom of their night only to confirm, in the end, life's ultimate hopefulness. "The Island Walkers" is at once a love letter to a place, a gripping family saga, and a testimony to the emergence of an important new novelist.
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"We don't have many novels that cross generations like this and give us the interior of lives, a feeling for social history, and an incredibly strong sense of place. The story is so ambitious and complex, yet simply, beautifully told. The whole thing flows along like a river, a real page-turner with Dantean echoes and lyrical insights that are often breathtaking--a great accomplishment."
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Already a bestseller in Canada - a spellbinding first novel about a family that slips from fortune's favour
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- PublisherMetropolitan Books
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0805074112
- ISBN 13 9780805074116
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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