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"A beautiful, elegiac novel about place, family, and community. A profoundly moving book."
-Guy Vanderhaeghe
"As Margaret Laurence staked out a world, Manawaka, in her novels and David Adams Richards has mined the Miramichi, Bemrose has created the vivid community of Attawan to tell an archetypal tale."
-Halifax Chronicle-Herald
"An astonishing debut, a big and breathtaking family novel that is both understated and passionate."
-Booklist
"[An] extraordinary debut novel.... Encompassing, bountiful, beautiful...."
-Globe and Mail
"A great reading experience, and Bemrose has now become a fiction writer to watch."
-W.P. Kinsella, Books in Canada
"A clear-eyed eulogy for a town and way of life that is gone forever."
-Sandra Martin, Globe and Mail
"We don't have many novels that cross generations like this and give us both the interior of lives, a sense of social history, and an incredibly strong sense of place. The story is ambitious, and 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."
-Marni Jackson
"A powerful debut novel."
-Library Journal
"The Island Walkers is thick with natural beauty and social insight.... A profoundly sensitive portrayal of a family's efforts to find its way through the tangled threads of desire and nobility, guilt and love."
-Christian Science Monitor
"As fine as any novel you will read this year."
-New York Sun
"Richly textured and multilayered.... Masterful.... A beautifully realized and emotionally resonant novel that stays with you long after you turn the last page."
-Kitchener-Waterloo Record
"[An] accomplished first novel...."
-Publishers Weekly
"Rhythmical prose, a strong sense of physical place and a restrained, moving atmosphere of mourning for the past."
-National Post
"A finely wrought first novel...."
-Kirkus Reviews
"A compelling human story.... [This] beautifully crafted debut novel should earn Bemrose a place in the Canlit pantheon...."
-Edmonton Journal
"The book's sense of place, its sense of the acceleration of time between generations, its sudden, surprising insights, give the sprawling story its impressive weight.... A riveting read...."
-London Free Press
"Bemrose has a talent for capturing the sad lyricism of ordinary lives.... Bemrose's poetic touch finds beauty in obscure corners and grandeur in small victories."
-Baltimore Sun
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.
"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
A native of Paris, Ontario, John Bemrose lives in Toronto and writes for Maclean's magazine.
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