The island walkers / John Bemrose.
Within a bend in the Attawan River lies the Island, a small neighbourhood of white-washed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying sheds. It is here that Alf Walker, a fixer in the local textile mill like his father before him, lives with his family. It is 1965, and when a large corporation takes over the mill, and workers attempt to unionize, Alf's actions inadvertently set in motion a series of events that will reverberate far into the future and burden him with an unspoken shame. This is also the year when his eldest son, Joe, falls headlong for a girl he first glimpses on a bridge - and his world is overturned by the passion and uncertainty of young love. The bittersweet story of Joe and Anna is juxtaposed against his father's deepening role in the tensions building at the mill and his unsettling connection with a local Native woman, Lucille Boileau. Meanwhile, Alf's wife, Margaret, must reconcile her middle-class English upbringing with her blue-collar reality, as her marriage is undermined by forces she cannot name. Set over the course of a single year, the novel reaches back to the past - to Alf's haunting memories of the Second World War and his brother's death; to the stories of the town's founder, Abraham Shade, and those of the eccentric river man Johnny North. --Goodreads.
Record details
- ISBN: 0771011121
- ISBN: 9780771011122 (trade pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 497 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: Emblem Editions
- Publisher: Toronto : M&S, 2003.
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Subject: | Working class families > Fiction. Textile industry > Fiction. Textile workers > Fiction. Social classes > Fiction. Labor unions > Fiction. Ontario > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Canadian fiction. Family chronicles. Domestic fiction. |
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