The Island Walkers

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.

Author: John Bemrose
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/01/2005
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.58w x 1.14d
ISBN: 9780312423698

About the Author

A native of Paris, Ontario, John Bemrose lives in Toronto and writes for Maclean's magazine.

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