October Ferry to Gabriola
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October Ferry to Gabriola is a novel by Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry
Clarence Malcolm Lowry was an English poet and novelist who was best known for his novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.-Biography:...

. Edited by his widow Margerie Bonner
Margerie Bonner
Margerie Bonner was an actress, scriptwriter and novelist who is best known as the wife of Malcolm Lowry and for her support of the author while he wrote his best known novel, Under the Volcano, considered one of the finest novels of the 20th century.The younger sister of silent screen star...

, it was posthumously published in 1970.

It is an existential love story featuring a Lowry-like character, Ethan Lleweyllen, and his wife, in their never-fully-consummated journey to Gabriola, an island near Vancouver in British Columbia. The themes are living, loving, drinking, travel mysticism, and literature in the 1940s.

Details

October Ferry to Gabriola. Last Novel. by Lowry, Malcolm.
Hardbound. The World Publishing Company. New York. 1970. First Edition

October Ferry to Gabriola by Lowry, Malcolm. Paperback 0888945922 Douglas & McIntyre, Limited, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 1970.

A Review from Time Magazine November 1970
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