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Pages : 376
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Kitford
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Pages : 376
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Cassell's Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Pages : 878
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The Metalliferous Mining Region of South-West England
Author: Henry George Dines
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Island Walkers
Author: John Bemrose
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 146685765X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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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.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 146685765X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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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.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Pages : 640
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Memoirs of the Geological Survey [of] England & Wales
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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AID Small Business Circular; Trade Opportunities for American Suppliers
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Small Business
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Category : Foreign trade promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Category : Foreign trade promotion
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County
Author: Sussex Archaeological Society
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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