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"Joe Walker, a high-school senior, lives with his father, Alf, his mother, Margaret, his little bother, jamie and his sister Penny on an island between two rivers of the town, Attawan, dominated by Bannerman's, a huge textile mill. Above the island, high on a hill in the North End, a new girl, Anna Maccrimmon,visits the town , and Joe is immediately smitten. While Joe tries to understand and attract the inscrutable Anna, Alf struggles with two mid-life crises. The mill is about to be taken over by a conglomerate, and Malachi Doyle comes to Attawan to unionize the plant. Meanwhile Prince, the new manager, promises Alf a job as a foreman if he provides names of workers who sign up. Alf knows from past experience when he tried to organize the plant as a young man in 1947 that these workers will be fired if he informs on them.
Will alf make foreman and betray his friends or work for the union? Will Joe interest the elusive Anna, a poet who loves an older man, who seems far above him? "
B.J. Korson, Resident Scholar
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"The Island Walkers is a fast moving story of a typical baby boomer family set in post-WWII Southern Ontario. The Island Walkers follows a family of five through a year of turmoil both private and very public.
Scarred by his time in the war in Europe, Alf, the patriarch of the family fiercey conceals his wartime terrors and his current struggles from the wife he brought back from the war with him. His children struggle with their own problems and like their father, conceal their pain and terror with determination. As Alf finds himself the unwilling focal point of a campaign to unionize the local textile mill he is in turn a hero, a failure and a target.
Bemrose describes the "closed door" that the children of WWII war veterans know so well. "
Joanne Birtch, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Political/social activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- union leaders fighting for labor rights
Life of a profession:
- blue collar worker
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Loving/sexing?
- girl chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Canadian (Aboot!)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- society
Profession/status:
- business executive
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 ()
Small town?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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